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The Self Realization
war. The aspirations and deep-seated desires of attachment and hatred are very strong but the Soul can assume more strength than they, and being victorious over them it can be completely liberated from all actions. Hence, it is wrong to hold that the Soul's nature is not to induce actions and thereby incur bondage. Nor it is the quality of the Soul to do actions. The Soul's qualities are knowledge, faith and conduct etc. Since on a higher plane the Soul is not related to any action, a philosophy of Soul's liberation as freedom from actions is preached by Jainism. The Soul, reflecting on the nature of the non-sentient and identifying itself with it, owns actions and therefore for it, bondage and freedom are real expereiences. The Soul reflecting on its own nature and being fixed in it is eternally free. The actions are momentary, they come and go, while there is nothing momentary in the Soul.
केवळ होत असंग जो, भासत तने न केम ? असंग छे परमार्थथी, पण निजभाने तेम 110811 Kevala hota asanga jo, bhasata tane na kema ? Asanga chhe parmarthathi, pana nija bhane tema. 76 If soul is SO bondageless quite, To you it appears not why ? Unalloyed is soul, that's right, To one who knows his self, else dry. 76
In fine, the Soul led by strong attachment and hatred induces the living body to do actions. If the embodied Soul were for all times non-attached to actions it should have been experienced as such by all persons. The Soul is non-attached to actions from a higher point of view. In ordinary life every embodied Soul is attached to actions and therefore it has to attain liberation from them by adopting a definite discipline
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