How Release Is Effected

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

How Release Is Effected
When the separation of the soul from the body takes place by destruction of the effects of
virtue, vice and the rest, and Prakriti ceases to act in respect to it, then there is the final and absolute
emancipation or the final beatitude.
When the fruits of acts cease, and body—both gross and subtle—dissolves, Nature does not
exist with respect to the individual soul. The soul attains the state called Kaivalya. It is freed from
the three kinds of pain.
The Linga-Deha or subtle body which migrates from one gross body to another in
successive births, is composed of intellect, egoism, mind, the five organs of knowledge, the five
organs of action and the five Tanmatras. The impressions of actions done in various births are
imbedded in the subtle body. The conjunction of the Linga-Deha with the gross physical body
constitutes birth and separation of the Linga-Deha from the gross physical body is death. This
Linga-Deha is destroyed by the knowledge of the Purusha.
When one attains perfect Knowledge, virtue and vice become destitute of causal energy, but
the body continues for some time on account of the previous impulse, just as after the action of the
potter has stopped, the wheel continues to revolve owing to the momentum given to it.