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The Self Realization
and experienced is the sure method of Soul's salvation. Many people, not knowing the Soul, imagine it to be a fancy or an illusion and by such experiences they declare that they have seen the Soul. Some believe that the Soul is the controlled breath. Others imagine that the light they sometimes see in their meditation is the Soul. The activity of the living body is the criterion of life in it. Some people believe that the criterion of life is tne same as the criterion of Soul.
But the correct path of Soul's Salvation is that of experiencing its true nature as pure, absolute, eternal, sentience, free from all contacts. And this experience is quite different from the beliefs mentioned above.
कर्म अनंत प्रकारनां, तेमां मुख्ये आठ ।
तेमां मुख्ये मोहनीय, हणाय ते कहुं पाठ ॥१०२॥ Karma ananta prakarana, tema mukhye atha, Tema mukhye mohaniya, hanaya te kahu patha. 102 The bondage has infinite forms, The chief are eight, with one foremost, 'Deluding Karma' the name adorns, To cut it off, take pains utmost. 102
There are infinite varieties of actions, chief of them being eight. Of these eight varieties the most prominent is one-deluding action (Mohniya karma) which infatuates the soul and misleads it. The method of destroying it is described below.
In reply to the disciple's question as to how can actions of infinite time be destroyed ?" the Guru maintains that the Soul's characteristic attributes are infinite and the actions of one or the other types cloud these infinite attributes and make them ineffective. Therefore the varieties of the actions are also infinite in
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