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between you and your wife. Above all these, you do not bother about your wealth, son and wife and leave them and try to save your life as your life is most precious and dearest to you. And this Atman is of the nature to be peaceful, happy, successful and famous and it dislikes sorrow, tension, loss and insult.
Great seers and masters have explained the characteristics of the soul as follows:
‘यः कर्ता कर्मभेदानाम् भोक्ता कर्मफलस्य च ।
संसर्ता परिनिर्वाता स हेयात्मा नान्यलक्षणः ॥ '
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
"It is the doer of eight kinds of Karma" and also experiences their fruit. Owing to the Karmas the soul is bondaged in the cycle of births and deaths and finally by spiritual practice gets Nirvana. Such is the Atman that is to be realized by one and all."
Indrabhuti Gautama realized the whole truth on hearing it once, from Lord Mahavira because he was extremely intelligent and wise.
A blind man will never be able to understand what exactly 'light' is; however well you may explain it to him. He will show his anxiety to know about it but you cannot satisfy his curiousity. Once such a blind man wanted to know about the light that is bright, and he asked a young man to explain to him, what the light was like.
The man tried to explain to him that the light is as white as milk and is also as white as the crane. The blind man then asked. "What is the crane like?" The man folded his hands and said that "One whose neck is bent like my folded hand is called crane." The blind man thanked the man, saying that he understood that the light is a crooked little thing. All the efforts of the man were in vain. The blind man finally got his eyes treated and his sight restored. The former blind man then saw the light with his own eyes and all his doubts regarding the nature of the light were cleared.
1. Karma - deeds
2. Nirvana - beatitude/salvation
Just as you get to know the light only with the help of light, so also you can know the soul, only with the help of the soul. Only by
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