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55. You know the pots and clothes and all,
Thus them believe but not the knower; If pots and clothes exist big, small,
Why not the soul with knowledge-power? 56. Supreme in thought, though bodies thin,
In fat, strong bodies no cleverness; This proves that the body is the inn,
And not the soul, there is no oneness. 57. The nature of the soul and matter,
Is clearly quite different; Can never be of one character,
See ages all: past, future, present. 58. Of one that doubts the soul's existence,
He himself the soul must be; Without the doubter's obvious presence,
Can there be doubt? Surprises me. 59. By thinking deep upon your points,
Of soul's existence, I allege; That there must be the soul who joints,
The conversation of this knowledge. 60. The second doubt now I put forth,
The soul cannot be eternal; The contact of the body's birth,
Destruction of union visual. 61. Or things are transient, constant change,
Is seen in every living being; And substances without knowledge,
I see, thus, there' no eternal thing. 62. The body is only adherence,
The object seen, lifeless with forms, Who knows the soul's genesis, hence,
Or death thereof? Think of the norms. 63. The seer of the rise and fall,
Must be quite different from the scene; Can hear the dead their death-roll-call?
Or ere one's birth what can be seen?
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