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KARMA PHILOSOPHY
being; he has not realised that his real self is different from these things, his goods, his emotions, his physical body, his reputation, etc. and that his real self cannot be injured by any of these losses. Fear for the loss of these things implies that he thinks that those things are the factors of his being (whereas they are not, he can live independently of them) that they are his self, and that if they are destroyed, he is destroyed with them. An Arbat would not have fear with regard to anything. Fear shows lack of knowledge and weakness.
Here was given a train of reasoning by which we
may know tiat the soul must and does exist: Matter is indestructable. If the state called knowledge can be proved to be different (which of course it can) from motion of matter, not only in degree but in kind; as the attributes of black etc., are attributes of objects, so the attribute of 'knowing' and the attribute of morality or mode of behaviour must be the attributes of some real thing-call it soul, self, ego, individual, or what not. And as matter cannot be destroyed, so this soul cannot be destroyed. And it is not a compound; it is a unit always itself. It must exist for ever. That it will exist always in some state or other is the essential of a reality. It is one of the natures of a reality to exist.
10. Ho has no feeling of disgust or sense of repulsiun. Tle season would be that the sense of
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