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and bliss. Hence, a pure soul establishes relationship with these characteristics and is devoid of relations with other objects. The experience of such ‘owned relationship is in fact the essence of spiritual order. “Owned' is one which is always with oneself and never gets separated. Physical body, attachments, friends, relatives get separated at times and hence are not owned. Knowledge, perception and bliss never get separated from the soul and are hence ‘owned by the soul. The soul's relationship is identified with its nature and renunciation of material objects and extend relations becomes easy and automatic. Thus renunciation is incidental to spiritual absorption. This is how the pure soul keeps its unity with the self and experiences infinite peace forever.
The severance of relations with other substances is not for the sake of breaking relations but to focus on the self with the conviction that even an atom is not owned by the soul.
Appa so Paramappa
Soul is God
Yogindu Deva, Paramatma Prakash, II, Verse 174
