1. Jivatamas (Embodied Souls) or Individual Eternal Souls of different persons are apparently different yet have the same common characteristics and are capable of reaching the same peak level of Happiness or Bliss in the state of Moksha or Liberation which implies freedom from birth-rebirth karmic cycle
2, Prakṛti or Nature, which is the material cause for the Creation, is also cyclically eternal and is characterised by Sattva (pure existence), Rajas (Rajah means to shine, light or that which conveys information about existence) and Tamas (existence unknowable in its form or ignorance coupled with mind's evils), which tend to be in equilibrium. When the equilibrium is lost creation will be dissolved and the Nature is restored back to its equilibrium after an interval. After a period called the
This cycle of creation and dissolution has neither beginning nor nor end, hence the characteristic of the eternal.
Note: Both Atma and Prakriti are eternal and are capable of working, these characteristics cannot be destroyed. They are timeless and eternal. Humans, however, as much they know and experience is always limited and yet unexplored always remains.
3. One Supreme Lord, who goes by the name Om, is the efficient cause of the Universe. Lord's chief characteristics being - Sat, Chit and Ananda i.e., "Exists", has "Supreme Consciousness" and is "Eternally Blissful". The Lord and his characteristics are the same. The Lord is the eternal truth itself and the very giver of bliss enjoyed by the individual souls. The Supreme Lord is ever present everywhere, beyond the Nature or Prakriti, and pervades all the individual souls and the Nature also and The Supreme Lord will not take birth or incarnate. The Supreme Lord is bodiless, has no form and hence cannot be worshipped through idols but can only be reached by every being through Yogic Samadhi as advocated in the Vedas which is summarised in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
4. Moksha or State of Liberation does not refer to any characteristic place but it is the state of Individual Souls who have achieved Liberation. The Jivas or Individual Souls are characterised by different states of existence which are: 1. Jagrat (Wakefulness), 2. Swapna (Dreaming), 3. Sushupti (Deep Sleep) and 4. Turiya. It is the fourth Turiya state in which the individual souls exist without contact with the Nature but are conscious of their own selves, other Individual Souls and the Supreme Lord (or Eternal Truth). This state of Moksha or Turiya is not seen in the World hence incomparable but can only be realised. In this state they are free of every tinge of Nature and possess their own minds experience non-worldy pleasures, the pleasure of their freedom and the like incomparable with any form of pleasure of the world. In Moksha, the individual souls remain distinct from one another and from the Supreme Lord. And, by means of their own capability and with the Supreme Lord as their means, they enjoy the Bliss.
Endnote: Some of the topics in the Satyarth Prakash include worship of one God, explanation of the main principles of the Vedas, the relationship between religion and science and between devotion and intellect, elimination of the caste system and critical analysis of different religious beliefs and other religions in the World in the light of the Vedas, for the strengthening of society, eradication of superstitions, false notions and meaningless customs, shunning narrow-mindedness and promoting the brotherhood of man. And, for this Swami Dayanand Saraswati found Arya Samaj to take society back to the Vedas
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