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Pure Soul and its Infinite Treasure * 89
When a soul turns inward and experiences the eternal bliss, the momentary feelings of the sensuous type disappear. The three aspects of soul – matter, properties and forms exhibit explicit nature of non-indulgence.
If bodily pleasures, wealth, vehicles, gardens, hill stations, etc., yield pleasures then these inanimate things are superior to the soul. If happiness emanates from external objects, the soul does not have happiness within it. Such an attitude will never lead to inward-looking tendency and therefore a soul will ever remain in this worldly existence of transmigration, experiencing births and deaths. A soul never enjoys the external possessions which seem to be either beneficial or harmful. These are only imaginations but these imaginations are associated with a particular soul and lead to karmic bondage and hence said to belong to a given soul. One may sit in a garden and feel or enjoy the natural beauty/ greenery of the garden. At the same time, if some one shoots him dead or cuts his head, the same event becomes a matter of sorrow. The act of murder is a sorrow for some and a matter of enjoyment for others. These feelings of happinessunhappiness and good-bad are the roots of worldly existence and also alien to the fundamental nature of the soul. It is a reality that an ignorant person is infinitely unhappy and is full of anxieties but the same person pretends to derive happiness in external objects. Without knowing the nature of the pure soul, none can ever experience happiness.
This property is an extra-ordinary one, which suggests panacea for all the ills of worldly existence and has never been experienced by the soul hitherto. A pure soul is a treasure of infinite happiness but an ignorant person seeking the same by indulging in external matters indicates a great
