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THEORY OF SOUL AND KARMIC MATTER
magnet soul
Pure soul
Liberated soul
Polluted soul
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filings karmic matter
Karmic matter
Fig. 2.7 The soul as a magnet, and karmic matter as filings.
karmic matter attracts its own particles (karmons) unlike fillings which do not attract each other.
2.4.2 Miscellaneous Analogies
Another analogy is with petrol. This is a refined stage of crude oil, thus in nature the energy is obscured because of the impurity and only refinement leads to the full combustive power of petrol. Obviously, the refined stage is the pure soul and impurities are karmic matter.
Another comparison which is made is that the impure soul is like an oiled cloth. This cloth can attract, because of the moisture, dust particles which are karmic particles, where the bond between the cloth and the oil is like karmic bondage. Note that the nature of the soul, remains invariant under adaptation to a particular body's dimensions, like a cloth which can be folded into various shapes without any alteration in its mass. Finally, an interesting analogy is how a virus can effect the body resulting in changes (e.g. long illness); in the same way, karmic matter can influence the soul.
