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Pure Soul and its Infinite Treasure * 61
the soul. This is the eternal capability of the soul and when one realises this, one's vision becomes infinite and loses interest in the limited ability of the eyes. The omni-vision is associated with omniscience in the state of Arihanta.
The substances that are seen do not enter the soul or are acquired by the soul but are only seen. Such visionary power is the real ornament of the soul. The misery of the mundane world is that one sees or acquires things one by one or one after another and these are lost in the cycle of births and deaths as one loses those respective physical bodies. The soul's power of vision is eternal, perfect and unobstructed by anything.
It is intriguing to note that in order to see worldly things, one has to turn towards them but to see the entire universe, one has to turn completely inward as this is the inner property of the soul whereby the entire universe is reflected in the soul, just as external things are reflect in the mirror. The soul is the mirror of the entire universe and hence inward-looking attitude ends ultimately viewing simultaneously all that exists, existed and will exist in the universe in all times. In the absence of this great insight, if one thinks he is a scholar and can argue reasonably well, he is only deceiving himself. The soul is a subject of internal experience and not of external vision or logic based on senses/emotions.
People often think of God as one who knows and sees everything. Unless one develops faith and conclusive belief that one's soul itself has not only the potential to become God but now itself it is equally divine. The moment such realisation takes place, Godhood manifests within the soul.
