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( 36 ) SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK.
Introductory. Verse.
1. Obeisance to the supreme Life. 2. Obeisance to the many-sided Philosophy.
8. The title of the book literally true ; it points out the method of attaining the object of human existence.
4. The masters have full knowledge of the various points of view from which a subject may be ascertained.
The Real and Practical Points of View, 5. The world in general is indifferent to the real aspect of things.
6. The relative or practical aspect is only for the guidance of the ignorant. A discourse is not to be limited to this preliminary aspect.
7. The danger is that an ignorant person may take the relative aspect as the real.
8. The student should know both the aspects of things, and view them in their entirety.
Life Defined. 9. The Life or soul, is the conscious I. It is free from touch, smell, taste, and color, having attributes and conditions and the triple aspect of appearance, disappearance and constancy.
10. Since eternity, it is the author of its own destiny, and suffers or enjoys the result of his action in word, deed, or thought.
11. On being disillusioned, it attains everlasting consciousness, infinite knowledge, power and bliss.
Karmic Action. 12. Fine particles of matter are converted into Karmas, because of the influence of the thought-activities of the soul.
13. And the material Karmas in their turn, influence the thought-activities of the soul.
14. The soul, thus appears, to the ignorant, as identi. fied with its thought-activities, and this illusion sets up the wanderings of transmigration.
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