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Pure Soul and its Infinite Treasure * 83
they are of no consequence or importance to anyone. Likewise, this divine soul is a treasure house of ornaments of infinite properties. So long as they are not known, the ignorant soul is entangled in the web of transmigration. Only when one turns inward, all the properties change to pure forms, otherwise they remain or change to impure forms.
If substances eternally remain the same, there cannot be changes and also appearance or disappearance of forms. Ignorance, yielding place to knowledge, misery yielding place to happiness and the worldly-life yielding place to Moksha – all these cannot happen without the characteristic of changeability. This power encompasses the subtle truth of the nature of substance.
This power contains similar and dissimilar features. There is similarity or oneness as properties are eternal and remain the same forever. In case of appearance and disappearance of forms, there are dissimilarities, as one form disappears and the other appears. But among the properties, not even a single property disappears or appears. Dissimilarities in forms does not indicate distortions or impurities but only indicates change. In Moksha, pure forms always occur but still are dissimilar. Although all pure forms take place one after another, the second is not the same as the first. Eternality ensures oneness of the substance but not of forms. If eternality is not here, dissimilarities will take place in the substance and the soul will be destroyed or changed to another substance. If forms remain the same, worldly existence will never be removed and Moksha will never be achieved. Appearance and disappearance are not the same thing. Appearance is a positive happening but disappearance is a negative happening showing absence. Although both take place in the same unit of time, both
