Soul Science Part 01

Author(s): Parsmal Agarwal
Publisher: Kundkund Gyanpith Indore

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Pre-view (Purva Ranga)
mine containing gold, coexistence of soil and gold in the mineral, the process of purification, etc. When the scientist and engineers research to develop the purification process then they remember very well their focus on gold. Their research about the soil and purification process can be made under a limit by keeping the focus on the gold extraction. Every act of research and development remains connected to the extraction of the gold. In the laboratory, mine, and everywhere the 'GOLD' gets prominence. The mine containing a large amount of non-gold and a small amount of gold is called the gold-mine.
We would find that in the remaining part of this sacred treatise, the description of each of the nine elements has been provided with a focus on the soul (the real point of view). For the detailed description of nine elements, from the relative point of view, one may refer to other scriptures. Since the description of all these nine elements in this treatise highlights the soul, Ācārya Amstacandra's commentary of this treatise has been named by him as Ātmakhyāti (Atma+Khyāti; Ātma = soul, and Khyāti = highlighted). It is interesting to note that in Ātmakhyāti, Ācārya Amstacandra used this stanza (Gāthā 13) to introduce and explain the word Ātmakhyāti'.
जो पस्सदि अप्पाणं अबद्धपुढे अणण्णय णियदं। 31farenhua duguri fannfell 1411 Jo passadi appāņam abaddhapusțham aņaạnayam niyadam. Avisesamasamjuttam tam suddhaņayam viyāṇīhi. ||14||| यः पश्यति आत्मानम् अबद्धस्पृष्टमनन्यकं नियतम्। 31fasteuriyati ai gati Hift || 1411
A point of view that perceives the soul as unbonded and untouched (Abaddhasprsta), non-varying (Ananya), steady (Niyata), free from any division in terms of its attributes (Aviseșa), and uncombined (Asamyukta) is to be known as the pure (real) point of view. [14]