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104 * A Reservoir of Infinite Power
and the child does not look beyond the fingers, the moon can never be seen. One has to look at the moon to know it. In the same manner, one has to look at the elemental nature of the soul to know it and all efforts to search it elsewhere will not yield the desired results.
31-32. Oneness and Manifoldness (Ekatva-Anekatva) - The property of oneness permeates in manifold forms in a manner that the nature of oneness of the soul is maintained and manifold forms are such that these are permeated by oneness of the soul. These automatic processes are part of soul's own nature which are intrinsically realised through knowledge orientation.
The soul does not permeate in other substances or feelings/attachments associated with other substances, it permeates only in its own properties and forms. Karma or feelings relating to other substances have momentary existence and the forms wither away; and they do not have the power to permeate in other forms or the soul. Both the powers of oneness and manifoldness exist simultaneously in the soul; while the first refers to the permanent nature of the matter as a whole and the latter refers to various temporary forms of the soul while the soul retains its timeless and formless permanent character. It is unrealistic to view a substance without its forms or forms without reference to the permanent nature of the substance. This description is unparallelled and unique of the existence of substances in general and the soul in particular, without any contradictions whatsoever. “All souls in the universe make only one soul” is not the meaning of oneness but description is about infinite souls in the universe, each being distinct and containing infinite properties and forms and yet retaining oneness and never getting dismembered.
