Karma Series - Nature of Soul # 13

Article sourced from Jain Philosophy

The way, one can realize the pure, everlasting conscious soul, devoid of all illusions, constitutes the path of liberation.

Staying within the pure nature of soul constitutes liberation.

we are concerned here with soul. It always continues to exist and retains its inherent nature. This is true even for the worldly souls. Such souls appear to be contaminated by Karma, but that contamination is a superficial temporary phenomenon.

If the nature of soul could be contaminated, it could never get rid of it and hence can never be liberated. Since infinite souls have attained the liberation by eradicating the bondage of Karma, it is clear that the inherent nature of soul remains the same forever.

Consciousness, which is the inherent property of soul. It indicates knowing capability. By virtue of consciousness the soul can exercise its vigor to know, and remains aware of itself as well as of others.

Only soul has this property of knowing. That property stays with it forever, because no substance can be devoid of its inherent property. In the case of the worldly souls, this property remains obscured on account of the impact of Karma. As such, its capability to know infinitely is not manifested. Every living being, however, possesses some degree of knowing capability. This is true even of one-sensed beings. If a soul could lose that capability altogether, it would turn into a lifeless substance.

Every soul is thus imbibed with the properties of everlastingness and consciousness; no soul can be devoid of that. The worldly soul is not conscious of its capabilities.

Similarly the worldly soul stays in illusion about itself. By its wrong perception and identification with the body, it considers itself as mortal and devoid of knowledge. Therefore it tries to gain knowledge from the external sources.

Even those, who look for the soul, tend to identify it with the sense organs or with respiration, etc. Only a few go ahead and undertake meditation for realizing the soul.

Therefore it is said here that the way, one realizes his true properties of everlastingness, consciousness, purity, etc. without any illusion, constitutes the path of liberation.

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