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Consciousness is found in all these. The lowest is that found in the beings that have only the organ of touch. The reason why these organs of sense are found inherent in the law of ethical causation,
Not that consciousness becomes human ( describing the difference in souls the speaker used this illustration) put a dollar into the pocket of a rich man or a poor man. It is the same dollar althougb it may be spent for an entirely different purpose. So a soul in a plant body, an animal body, or a human body may be the same soul. There is no idea of transmigration in the Hindu philosophy; also re-incar nation is not correct. (The speaker explained how the exact use of these terms was not correct) if embodiment means taking on the body, then it is correct. We use the term re-birth. Re-birth is to be avoided. We must act so as to be regenerated in this life. When I do an act or think a thought, I creacte debts or forces which I must pay on the same plane. When you create debts on c physical plane you must pay them on a physical plane. Soul life is on the moral pla ne. Life may be divided into tne physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual planes. When a person is on the lowest plane he depends on gross matter for all his acts and powers. It he wishes to progress he must follow the rules pertaining to that life. We do not despise the physical life. He must act so that the physical will correspond with the laws of the other planes. Body is not the
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