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What is the Soul? What is it like? This kind of suspicion is most difficult to get rid of without the help of a Gnani Purush. Who is the owner of anger, pride, deceit, and greed? How is one to understand this? Only the Gnani can make us understand and help us be rid of them. What is the Soul? What is it like? Life is to be spent thinking about this, not in the bedroom or cinema or hotels!! When do all the different types of suspicions go away? They go away, when one becomes free from attachments (vitarag) and free from all fears. Who has suspicion about the Soul? The Self does not have suspicions at all. Actually, the ‘relative self’ suspects the existence of the Self. He who becomes suspicion-free in the matter of the Soul is in a state of permanent liberation! Up until now whatever knowledge one moved around with, whatever tools of knowledge he utilized, starting from the time he became suspicious about that knowledge and the tools, to the point of becoming completely suspicion-less (nihshankta) regarding the Soul, (the Self), that entire duration of period in spirituality is regarded as having suspicion with reference to the Soul. Once that suspicion-less-ness (nihshankta) occurs, one becomes free of fears (nirbhayta)! And where there is fearlessness, there is a state of nonattachment (asangata) in the presence of all attachments! Akram Vignan is to be applauded in wonder that within one hour of the miraculous Gnan Vidhi (the one hour spiritual process of Self-realization), one becomes permanently suspicion- free about the Soul. Suspicion about the Soul cannot go away by reading books. A manifest Gnani is required there. As one knows more 23