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The Path to Real Nature
soul and one's efforts to attain happiness and bliss become futile and is eternally condemned to mundane existence. This fallacious perception leads to influx of Karmas (Asrava) associated with each wrong belief. A soul, by itself, is only one and karmic particles are infinite but in vain it attempts to establish one's empire over these infinite particles and wrongly claims this human body and others as one's own. Such influx of Karmas is associated with both auspicious deeds (Punya) and inauspicious deeds (Pap). Wrong belief, inability to take the vows and lead a pious life, negligence to meditate on one's pure soul, passions and spatial vibrations in soul-all these lead to influx of Karmas. These are generally viewed in two ways-modifications of soul as wrong belief, etc. arising in the soul due to ignorance, and the other category of karmic particles which are inanimate in nature which get attracted and associated with a soul creating bondage (Bandh). The process of influx and bondage goes on continuously ad infinitum, unless one realises the pure soul. Stoppage of influx (Samvar) leads to stoppage of new bondage too. The stoppage is also described both in terms of stoppage of passions and stoppage of karmic particles. The first belongs to soul and the other to another substance (atoms). With greater intensity and duration of the engrossment with the self, shedding of previous Karmas (Nirjara) takes place, both in terms of passions and karmic particles. With each successive engrossment, greater dissociation of Karmas from the bondage occurs and thus reduces bondage considerably. In the end, complete influx is stopped and complete shedding occurs resulting in complete absence of all types of Karmas and then liberation (Moksha) of a soul from mundane existence follows.
The pure soul is common in all the nine principles and the same does not lose any property or basic nature while passing through the process of liberation/bondage. This is the unique nature of the pure soul.
