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conscious, beginningless, indestructible and imperishable. This seeming exterior body is not soul. What resides in it is soul. Body is mortal while soul is immortal. On the expiry of the body, soul leaves it and forms a new body. Some souls by religious disciplines make a spiritual ascent and attain omniscience even in an embodied condition. In short, this world is eternal, soul is eternal.
To comprehend these matters more fully, the readers are advised to peruse the two books on (1) Philosophy of Soul and (2) Can there be God as the Creator of the World?
On this occasion, we put off the discussion of this matter as it is likely to lead to the digression of the whole subject. It is enough to bear in mind that these are the two basic premises of our subsequent superstructure.
Friends, any happening in the world has definitely at its root some cause. What is it? It is nothing else but "KARMA". What is KARMA? To know this subject certain basic principles have to be properly apprehended.
Remember, no edifice can stand without a foundation.
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