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96 • A Reservoir of Infinite Power
When two or more persons meet, they ask one another as to where they live or belong to which place. Similarly, if it is asked as to where the soul lives, the apt answer will be “it lives in its own infinite properties”. Self-pervasiveness in infinite properties is the abode of the soul. None of the properties ever desert its abode and go out.
The soul has its own structure made of infinite properties such as knowledge, vision, bliss, etc. Human body is made of blood, flesh, veins, bones, etc., while the soul is made of consciousness. Whether the body is beautiful or ugly, it is made of inanimate atoms only. Just as a traveller, while passing on the road, passes from one tree to another, passes through the shadows of all those trees but never thinks that he/she has become a tree or its shadow. He remains the same. Similarly, while passing through several bodies, the soul remains different from them. A person who has the knowledge of the soul does not ever dream to be affected by the nature of bodies. All souls have this power of selfpervading nature and realisation of this constitutes the path to Moksha.
One who believes that bodily activities can influence the soul or vice versa, is under a great illusion and has not understood either the nature of the soul or the body. The body can never become a soul or vice versa. To believe in the influence of one on the other means believing that inanimate matter can behave as animate or vice versa. Even for a moment, none of the matter has influenced another matter for eternity and will not do so even in infinite times to come. Self-pervasiveness is the innate nature of the soul.
A body is not the abode of a soul and the eternal nature is its real abode. An ignorant person believes he lives in the
