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wife in a distant planet and being amused with what they were doing, the pupil smiled and laughed, and then the sight disappeared. The teacher said that the act of laughing stopped the knowing. Io laughing be left off knowiog.
The knowing faculty is one aspect of the pure soul. There are other aspects, but knowing is one.
From the low standpoint (see later on under Nigoda) the karma is a higher stage: from the ideal standpoint the karma is an obstruction: the stage of karma is a stage in the line of progess of the soul from the low standpoint.
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