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APPENDIX.
Our Author,
Jainism.
4. Jimas (souls) are illusory.
4. Souls are real.
5. The goal is to bring about 5. The goal is to attain to a dissolution of one's personality, godhood. There can be no i.C., separateness into the non-merger of two or more real dual Absolute
existences into one.
6. When the goal is reached 6. On reaching the goal every there will be no ideas of duality soul becomes omniscient, allleft in one's consciousness. perceiving, and perfectly happy,
and possesses inexhaustible en
ergy. 7. The condition of final 7. Not so; all things are liberation is beyond mind, speech | knowable. and words. It is altogether inconceivable.
8. The 'path' lies along the 8. The path' does not lie line of suggestion and contem. through hallucination or dream, plation as described in the but consists in the destruction, bhumikas.
of karmas (see The Practical Path).
9. I also preach complete renunciation,
9. No doubt; but it can never be perfect; because of-pardon the observation - your hallucina. tions you are not in a position to judge of what is perfection in renunciation
10. It is not possible for me to point to a single sonl who might be said to have attained to final liberation,
10. We can give the biographies of a large number of souls who are now livicg in nirvana and enjoying the beatitude of final liberation.
11. We create onr mental 11. The happiest dreams have worlds as we proceed on the an ending. Suppression of ideas path, thus filling our creations | is no proof of their destruction. with whatever kind of popula. When the process reaches the tion we please, and destroying 1 breaking point, there is a rebellion the undesirable ones.
in the region of the sub-conscious; suppressed ideas break loose and become turbulent, displacing the mental equipoise. Many people go mad then, and wander about in samsara, through
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