Yoga Philosophy

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Devchand Lalbhai Pustakoddhar Fund

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PRACTICAL RULES FOR SOUL-CULTURE.
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its own sake, it is considering its own self to be different from another person's, and thinks that this is its own and a part of its nature, its own being, and therefore anything done in regard to these surroundings will benefit or injure its own nature. It even thinks that its very life consists in doing good and in looking after other souls and taking active measures for carrying into effect the very plant of that soul. Then it comes higher, and ultimately reaches the highest condition. The condition of the soul, as I have said, is the highest in which there is perfect consciousness, there is infinite knowledge and infinite bliss; we express these thrce ideas in Sanscritas existence infinite, bliss infinite and knowledge infinite. That condition of the soul cannot be described by us because by us description is something which proceeds from a finite mind and when the soul becomes infinite no finite mind can fully express the condition of that infinite state. The attributes we give therefore to that condition of the soul are always full or comprehensive: We shall always leave out many things ; we have not the power to express all our thoughts. How can we express, then, this state of a soul which so far as its power and knowledge are concerned is infinite. The Jains have studied the nature of the soul and of the universe from these standpoints, and have derived a beautiful principle, and so far as this is concerned there is this difference between this country and other countries and other religions, they can understand all these from these standpoints. The Bible says, Thou