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72 • A Reservoir of Infinite Power
viewpoint of eternal nature of the soul, these do not exist in the pure soul. People are often ignorant of the system of independent operation of various substances and as all the substances co-exist in space, wrong causal-effect relationships are attributed among the substances. When an event takes place, there are associated substances and their presence is contextual and not causal; reference to other substances is reference to the environment in which the events took place, rather than reference to cause-effect relationship. Cause and effect take place in the same substance. It is an intrasubstance description and not of inter-substances. Soul, like all substances, exists by itself and self-proven and its eternal nature, properties and forms are self-driven. Hence the soul is neither the artwork of any ‘God' nor a collection of certain substances nor a collection of feelings.
The soul is not the causal factor in the functioning of the body or speech or feelings of good or bad; good and bad deeds. So long as a person is involved in such thinking, one is not able to know the eternal nature. Let these three points be noted in this context :
(a)If our own work is done by others, then one does not have to do anything in the self. One need not know the self and even its eternal nature.
(b) If the soul can do the work of other substances, it will always be busy doing the work for others and will not have anytime for doing anything for the self and looking inward. “What will happen to this universe’-will be its preoccupation and then there will be no time for one's own welfare.
