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There is not a native Buddhist in all India.
Hinduism has borrowed Buddhistic ideas, and is now a mixture of the old Vedic faith with other philosophies.
Mind is a relationship established between the soul and body, which is the action of the soul along a certain line.
No soul is disembodied unless it is liberated. Out philosophy teaches that the liberated soul can exist without form and without space, and has the higbest consciousness of power, life, etc. Souls who die assume a body, but not an earthly body for they are liberated. We do not belive in materialism. We believe that spirits may appear as a vision, but we insist upon three conditions as necessary; First, that the vision appears a foot above the floor; second, it must appear in broad day light; third, it must not cast a shadow. [Being questioned, the speaker replied: "I, my self, have seen such a vision..] The spirits which appear are usually those of spirits which cannot get away from eartbly ties. Affection limits thein to an earthly plane. Being asked about recognizing friends who thus appear, he said: That the soul on an earthly plane rocognizes only limited relationship, but if it passed to the higher plane if recognized universal relationship. [To a question, he replied that the spirit could return as a ministering spirit.]
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