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full of knowledge and eternally blissful, means power beyond bond. The pure soul is free from the activities of mind, body and speech. It is conflictless, detached, formless, substratumless, dispassionate, blemishless, and free from delusion and fear. Consciousness is the nature (i.e. innate quality) of the soul. Sentience is the application of consciousness, which is not tangible. Consciousness makes all experience possible because it is capable of perception and experience.
An essential condition of a balanced mental state is the knowledge of the distinction between the soul and non-soul or pudgal (Pudgal is a Prakrat word which is identified with matter in modern scientific terms. Prakrat is an ancient Indian language. It is the intial language of Jain literature.). The soul or self is distinct from the body, which can be broken, or the mind which can be moulded, but it is something which is superior to the relics of the body or the fluctuations of mind. Birth, old age, disease, death affect the material body but not the spiritual entity. The spiritual and physical entities have a real existence, and they are not temporally distinct, that is, one neither precedes, nor a consequent of the other. Even when entrapped or housed in a body, soul remains an independent entity. Soul and conscience are not the qualities of a body rather they have their own manifestations. It survives even when the body perishes. Whatever a soul possesses, whether capacity for speech, breath or thought, is a result of the interaction with matter. But, without the soul, the organs through which these activities operate become inanimate matter. They cannot be shared or transferred. This is the foundation of all moral and spiritual life.
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