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this world unless they also change their perception. One is free to join either of the groups.
The soul cannot dig the mountains, build temples, cook food, go on pilgrimage or take other souls to Moksha. An ignorant always thinks of the soul as doing something or working for others, performing good or bad deeds. The function of the soul is to know and not to do these things. Whatever happens in the state of Moksha is the function of the soul and whatever does not happen in the pure soul, does not belong to the soul at all, The soul is quiescent and steadfast in its pure nature and inactive or renounces all mundane actions, which are alien to it.
22. Power of Non-Indulgence (Abhokatratva) The nature of the pure soul is to look inward, hence it enjoys inner bliss and there is complete absence of pleasure or pain arising out of indulgence in material objects. Sensuous pleasure/pain are the results of karmic bondage, which malign the experiences and promote indulgence. The nature of the soul is that of knowing and seeing and this leads to self-indulgence.
It is an illusion that one enjoys physical pleasures, money, food, clothes, sex etc. It is an imagination created by the ignorant person who enjoys the imagination experiencing pleasure or pain. These feelings are separate from the nature of the soul and it is not in the nature of a soul to enjoy them. ► There is no indulgence of external objects in the nature
of soul's matter, its properties or its forms. ► Worries, pleasure/pain are momentary in nature and
exist in the state of one's ignorance.
