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117 sure of knowledge is miserably incomplete, howsoever, mch it might be unless he possesses the knowledge about 'soul also. Manu has also expressed the same opinion with regard to the knowledge of soul "Amongst all knowledges" he said "the knowledge about soul is the noblest It is the foremost amongst all Vidyas (learning) and it is with thus knowledge that man attains salvation "
When we turn to Gita we find the same teaching being imparted to us The following passage from Gita vividly explains the central theme of all the views expressed by Vedic philosophies with regard to the knowledge of soul
'As a man throws away his old clothes, and puts on new ones, so the soul leaves behind one worldly form and enters the new one " No weapon can disect the soul, nor can fire burn it Neither air nor water has any effect over it In other words water can not make the soul wet nor can air dry it up & The substance which does not exist cannot be created and the substance which exists cannot be destroyed "
Philosophers have advanced similar theories for the existing and non-existing entities We do not find such explicit and advanced ideas about re-birth in the
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