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the result of the combination of Karmas.
48. Thus, in many ways, (persons) of perverse intellect call the soul other than itself; (such persons) are therefore classed by the knowers of Reality as (those who) describe the non-soul as the soul,
49 (It is) said by the Perfect Conqueror that all these conditions are produced by the operation of material Karmas. How can they be called souls ?
50. The Conquerors say (that) all the eight kinds of Karmas are material. What is named pain, is the (resulting) fruit of their maturity.
51. All these thought activities, (are) souls. This has been described by the Conquerors as a statement from the practical standpoint.
52. From the practical standpoint the remark is made of (his) military forces; "the king has gone out" (although not) the king only (but also his military forces are) gone out with him,
53. And similarly from the scriptural standpoint this has been said in the scripture that this non-soul thought activity attachment, etc; (is) the soul. From the real standpoint the soul itself is alone.
54. Know the soul (to be) without taste, without colour, without smell, invisible, without sound, with consciousness as its attribute, cognisable by no (external) siga and without any material shape.
55. In the soul there is no colour, neither smell nor taste and neither touch nor materiality, nor body, nor (physical) figuration, nor (physical) constitution.
56. In the soul there is 20 attachment nor hatred, nor is
