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Scanning Soul's Environment
us act as glue or cementing force leading to the bondage. These wrong perceptions further block the full blossoming of the characteristics of the soul. Wrong perceptions are of innumerable degrees and affect in a myriad of ways in one's cycle of life and death. However, these are broadly categorised into eight groups. This eight-fold Karma classification covers in general everything that happens in one's life. Further, it may be important to observe that eight prominent properties of soul, viz., absolute knowledge, absolute vision, absolute self-realisation, absolute vigour, absolute bliss, permanent abode, absolute subtleties and absolute status manifest themselves when the corresponding Karmas, which are alien to the soul, are removed through some process of spiritual surgery/purification/realisation of the self. Just as darkness dispels automatically in the presence of a lamp, Karmas wither away on their own when one realises the nature of the pure soul.
Multifaceted Reality (Anekant) - A substance is known by its nature. The nature of a substance is described through its characteristics and forms, which may look alike or completely opposite to one another and yet describe the same substance. All substances have such conflicting properties. Consider the following illustrations: (a) A man is said to be father in relation to his son, but the
same man is son in relation to his father. How can the
same man be both father and son? (b) The cold water and hot water-apparently conflicting
properties of hot and cold in water. (c) A medicine can cure a person and the same may kill
another person. (d) The taste of milk is sweet but when it turns into curd,
it becomes sour.
