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to such attainment is ignorance, illusion, or Moha, and when that is removed, the inherent attributes appear and the latent becomes patent. The latent potentialities become fully manifested, and the imperfect Soul becomes perfect Soul, Parmatma. Jiva and matter both have the capacity of modification. i he modification, however, would not go beyond the scope of their respective attributes. A Jiva would in spite of all modifications remain a Jiva, and would never get modified into matter; and so would matter never get modified into Jiva. But there is a sort of reciprocal connection of cause and effect between them, in as much as the impure thought-activity of a Jiva is an auxiliary cause to the conversion of Karmic molecules into Karmas, and the operation of bound up Karmas becomes an auxiliary cause for the impure thoughtactivities of Jiva. This reciprocal action is the cause of the ever-continuous existence of Jiva in mundane condition. Matter existing by itself could never have been capable of turning into Karma, if there were no stimulus of the impure thought-activity of a Jiva; and a Jiva could never entertain an impure thought-activity if there were no Karma
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