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The Self Realization
The place and things of various kinds, There are eternal heaven and hell, The truth is deep beyond your finds, It's here exposed in a nut-shell. 86
From the cosmic point of view every substance is higher, middle or lower, according as it is pure, mixed or impure. Every Soul cherishes his good, bad or mixed motives while doing any actions. Accordingly it will go to the higher world (Heaven), the nether world (Hell) or the middle world (the Earth) to enjoy or suffer the fruits of its actions impelled by these motives.
The special nature of the Soul and its body is to feel elevated by good actions, depressed by bad actions and have mixed feelings by partly good and partly bad actions. And from the point of view of the law of justice it is quite correct to admit that Heaven and Hell are by nature places of enjoyment and suffering for the good and bad Souls respectively. They are not specially made by God. The philosophy of actions and the places of enjoying or suffering their fruits in Heaven, Hell, etc, is very difficult to grasp, it has been described in detail in relevant scriptures. Only its brief idea is given here. Ananda Shravaka by his spiritually enlightened vision could see the world of the Gods
(Deva). By rightly digesting the revealed truths received from the scriptures and the enlightened Guru one can easily know the whence and whither of a particular Soul. Such knowledge is also very deep and difficult to grasp.
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