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nature become the associating cause of the obstructing delusion of the self-shining soul. When the Karmic Upadh's get destroyed and become cid of, the pure soul or God also emerges and shines in his prestine purity.
16. Dear friends, you call yourself now give the correct reply to the first part of the first quetion, namely : What is the name of Godthat the name of God is Siddha, the liberated soul. You can dame him as Paramātmā, Išvara, Bhagavāna, Siva, Buddha and by number of such names Indicating the absolute and perfect manifestation of any of his attributes. It is correct to name him as well by the name of the body, last occupied by such liberated soul, as for example Adinatha, Rāma, Mahāvira,
17. The second part of the first question is - what is the form of God ? God is, as we have seen above, a pure soul substance. He is arüpr. He cannot be perceived by any of the five senses as he has no such corporeal or concrete form, which can be the subject of any of the five senses of taste, touch, smell, seeing and hearing. However, as he is also one of the six kinds of substances, it has also, the attribute of Area ness ( Pradeśatva). He has, therefore, a form of particular Areaness, consisting of lonumberable space-points (pradeśas), equal to those of Lokakāśa, But this form expands and contracts in accordance to the size of the body, the soul occupies.
18. We have now come to a stage of understanding where, you can yourself reply correctly the second part of the question that the form of the liberated soul i.e. the form of God Is Arūpi (not visible by any of the senses) and of little less in size than the last body occupied by him,
19. Due contemplation on what has been said above, helps a good deal to have a correct reply on the second question, as well. We have said that God is pure nature of soul, a liberated soul. It means God is not some other thing, different from the soul. They are not two different but one and the same in their intrinsic nature.
The reply to the first part of the second question - Can God be realised is that the soul can realise God, which he himself is, by being free from the belief of oneness with other substances like the body he occupies and with his thought-activity. This belief of oneness with them is the main knot of the bondage of material and Karmic impurities.
20. Let us understand this by illustrations of our daily experience, You go out from your city to a village where there is no water-works and the water is fetched from a distant lake, collecting rain water. The water
