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PRACTICAL RULES FOR SOUL-CULTURE
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Practical Rules for
Soul-Culture.
THE most important point in this practical subject
is to understand the distinction between the ordinary life that we live and real soul-life which we ought to live so that the ultimatum may be attained sooner.
The idea with ordinary people in regard to life is as Prof. Max Muller has well put it, "a struggle for existence, a struggle for beauty, a struggle for enjoyment." This idea of life implies the correlative idea of competition and a struggle to live at the sacrifice of our fellowbrother. It also implies that one part of the sentient universe is to advance at the destruction of another. The doctrine of the survival of the fittest leads us to the barbarous code of morality of cutting each other's throat. This law of the survival of the fittest is true in the physical and lower animate world. A being who has no idea of protecting his fellow-beings lengthens his duration of life at the cost of his fellow-beings. We find this law exemplified in the vegetable kingdom and even in the case of animals and human beings so far
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