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Second Fundamental-Everlastingness of Soul
destroyed. Even if the pot is reduced to pieces, even if it is pulverized, the earth would stay as Paramänu, it cannot be entirely destroyed. Not a single Paramänu of the erstwhile pot can be lost, because it is of every one's experience that an object can be transformed, but it is not possible to conceive of its total destruction.”
The Guru therefore tells the pupil that if by extinction of soul he refers to its transformation similar to a pot, he should specify the form that a soul would assume after its extinction. In other words, as the Paramänus of the earthen pot are mixed with other earthly aggregates of Paramänus, he should explore with what matter consciousness can be mixed. He would then find out that consciousness is a substance that cannot mix with or merge into anything else. It is therefore safe to say that the soul is the everlasting consciousness.
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