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Pure Soul and its Infinite Treasure * 105
In the infinite past, there have been impure forms/states which were caused by influx of karmic matter and the soul, in fact, never permeated in any one of the forms because impure forms do not have oneness with the soul. If the soul does not exist in impure forms, how can it exist in body, space, inanimate objects etc. It lives only in its properties and forms. Just as the word coconut refers to the inner sweet part, though the substance and these characteristics are not found in the outer or inner hard shell of the coconut. If one eats only the outer cover or hard shell, one does not know the real coconut. Likewise, experience of impurities is not the experience or realisation of the soul. If it always remains one, then will there be pure forms and if it always takes manifold forms, what constitutes the basis for these forms? Therefore, both the powers exist and operate simultaneously as the substance itself takes various forms in accordance with its nature and are not dependent or caused by other substances. One who believes that other things cause modification in a given substance, he believes that all other substances can permeate in a given mode of one substance. In that case, there will be no consistent behaviour of things as everything gets mixed up.
In fact, the nature of the soul is realised in its pure modes and the mode will not germinate without the oneness of the substance. Forms are sequential and properties of the soul exist even in the state of ignorance and when one realises the pure soul, pure forms will follow. Thus, acceptance of pure soul or sequential occurrence of forms or acceptance of existence of the state of Omniscient (Arihanta) or inward-looking approach of pure soul, realisation of pure soul, beginning of path of Moksha, harnessing of energy to experience the soul, right faith, knowledge and conduct-all these expressions are synonymous. Therefore, this experience
