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way he who obtains the second, the third and the fourth concentration and fixes his mind in perception and knowledge, has no necessity of saying The soul and the body are the same or They are different." I know this, even then I do not say "The soul and the body are the same or they are different."
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(3) Sandakasutta Page. 264. Gotama says Ο Sandaka! just as a man whose hands and feet are cut off, knows that his hands, and feet are cut off, even when walking, sitting, sleeping and awakening, so the monk who is Arhat and whose Asavâs are destroyed, always realizes that he is the destroyer of Āsavâs". This shows that there is a pure soul, freed from Asavâs.
(4) Mahasukuldai sutta P. 372. Gotama says "I have shown the path... Udai! just as some one may separate culm from the grass, then he knows that this is culm, this is grass; culm is separate and grass is separate....Just as a man may take away sword from a sheath, then he knows that this is sword, this is sheath, sword is separate, sheath is separate, although sword has come out of the sheath....Just as a man may bring out a serpent from a basket-thus I have shown the way."
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These passages show that the soul is distinct from the body.
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