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Pure Soul and its Infinite Treasure 75
The characteristic of knowable is common to all substances, i.e., all substances become the object of someone's knowledge and cannot refuse or block the process of knowing the knowable. However, the power of knowing the self and the rest of the substances lies only in the soul as other substances are inanimate and devoid of knowledge. These inanimate substances are incapable of knowing the self or in any way can facilitate the knowing of the self. This realisation is crucial in the understanding of the soul and will lead to true detachment from worldly objects.
One should not understand from this property that the self is knowable by the senses. The nature of the soul is very subtle and it is beyond the senses to know the soul. However, through extra-sensory knowledge and perception, the self becomes knowable.
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Feelings of attachments etc. are knowable but by themselves these do not know the self or help to know. Knowledge is capable of knowing the self and others but do not have the power to produce feelings of attachment, etc. There is no question of the soul affecting some animate or inanimate things. In fact, neither the body dies nor the soul, there is only change in their forms. The atoms that constitute the body never die. Therefore, all substances operate and change forms on their own and are not caused by any other substance, but only constitute the subject matter of knowledge.
The knower and knowable ultimately culminate in the state of omniscience where all substances, their properties and forms, of all times and space are known simultaneously by the soul in the smallest unit of time.
