Pure Soul and Its Infinite Treasure

Author(s): Jayantilal Jain
Publisher: University of Madras

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1. The mundane existence of soul is highly temporal and
transient and economic/other activities carried out by human beings have no meaning unless one knows
about oneself and realises one's eternal nature. 2. The pure soul is the most secular concept as the souls
constitution/engineering is the same for all groups/ faiths just as human body's engineering constitution is not different across different faiths. The pure soul's functioning is governed by its own characteristics/properties. There is a need to analyse in detail the working/functioning of the soul/pure soul in
an engineering sense. 4. Just as a text book on biology gives the idea of how
the body functions through different organs, this book explains now the soul functions through its own
characteristics. 5. The subject of pure soul needs analytical investigation as
this is shrouded in mysteries and has different religious
overtones. The Backdrop
The present era is termed as the age of science and technology. Science has done great service to mankind by providing various amenities. In the process, we know much about the atom but not about the self. Our life is full of excitements, emotional disorders and value conflicts. The truths revealed through concepts of pure soul were the boldest and truest ever offered to mankind by any one and go much beyond what the sciences have to offer to mankind.
Dharma (religion) is defined as the real nature of the things and the ultimate end of the soul is to realise the same