the subtle world; and mental-conscious souls experience only the mental world. The qualitative diversity in the experience of these three types of souls is due to the difference in the nature of their sanskaras.
The Self-conscious souls are radically different from all the other souls, because they experience the Oversoul through the medium of the Self, whereas the other souls experience only their bodies and the corresponding worlds. Self-conscious souls are free from sanskaras This radical difference in the consciousness of Self-conscious souls and of other souls is due to the fact that, whereas the consciousness of most souls is conditioned by some kinds of sanskaras, the consciousness of Self-conscious souls is completely free from all sanskaras. It is only when consciousness is unobscured and unconditioned by any sanskaras that the initial will-to-be-conscious arrives at its final and real fruition, and the infinity and the indivisible unity of the Absolute is consciously realised. The problem of deconditioning the mind through the removal of sanskaras is therefore extremely important.

Part I
THE CESSATION OF SANSKARAS: THEIR
WEARING OUT AND UNWINDING

HUMAN beings do not have Self-illumination, because their consciousness is shrouded in sanskaras or the accumulated imprints of past experience. In them the will-to-be-conscious with Sanskaras prevent Self-illumination which evolution started has succeeded in creating consciousness. But it does not arrive at the knowledge of the Oversoul, because the individual soul is impelled to use consciousness for experiencing sanskaras instead of utilising it for experiencing its own true nature as the Oversoul. The experiencing of sanskaras keeps it confined to the illusion of being a finite body trying to adjust itself in the world of things and persons.
The individual souls are like the drops in the ocean. Just as each drop in the ocean is fundamentally identical with the ocean, the soul which is Problem of securing release from sanskaras individualised due to bhas or illusion is still the Oversoul and does not really become separate from the Oversoul. Yet the envelope of sanskaras, by which consciousness is covered,