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CHAPTER XVII.
SOUL Soul, and the God-hend - Materialistic conception of Soul-A bye-product of matter -- Enstern and Western materialism compared – Charvak and Hekel and Girardian, the socialist-Cosmological and Moral difficulties involved in Materialisn-Admissions by Huxley. Spencer and Darwin-The Jain conception of Spirit and Matter-Their Correlativity-Pradeshas-Parts or Soul-units.-Conscious effulgence form the spiritual essence of the Soul.-Soul's constitutional freedom - Ito Transmigration through the grades of Sansar and Emancipation.
While dealing with our conception of Soul and God, we have seen that the individual
soul, when it becomes free from all taints and blemishes, reaches perfection charac. terised by omniscience and realizes itself as a self-conscious spirit of the nature of all-delight, distinct and separate from other than itself, it becomes God.
But what is this soul whch is thus potentially divine and attians to God-head, He being no other than the coalesence of the pure and free self-conscious spirits existing in a
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Conceptions of Soul.
