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126 * A Reservoir of Infinite Power
contextual and contact-based and not of ownership. If the soul owns Karmas or bodies, then the soul would become inanimate substance and will have the properties of smell, taste, colour, touch, etc., as possessed by matter and would no longer remain a soul. There will be chaos in the universe if one substance can own other substances. All the substances would keep the others changing and there would be no rules or systems. Thus, all substances would destroy themselves and there would be no order in the universe.
When the ownership with the self is recognised, it is also recognised that there is complete absence of relationship with other objects. There is a revolution in the belief of ownership of self and complete transformation within.
Out of reverence, it is often prayed that the God is our Lord and owner. In fact, those who have achieved liberation own their infinite properties of omniscience, bliss, etc., and do not own other souls. They are not in the business of owning others' souls. The pure soul is the owner of itself. None owns a soul except oneself. Otherwise, souls in the state of liberation or mundane existence will be slaves of other souls and there will be no independence of each soul and it will be impossible for a soul to attain liberation and bliss. Every soul is eternal and not made or owned by anyone. If at all one believes in a creator God, then question arises as to why such a God created such a miserable world, who created Him and out of what did he create. If accepted that God is eternal, then why not accept the soul to be eternal. Why should God own other souls? God definitely has other job to do than to own the world filled with animate and inanimate things.
Who owns the soul? The soul owns itself. The soul is the owner of its properties of supreme knowledge, perception
