Yoga Philosophy

SR No.: 002016
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi, Bhagu F Karbhari
Publisher: Agamoday Samiti
Publication Year: 1924
Total Pages: 332
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Yoga, & Philosophy
File Size: 14 MB

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PRACTICAL RULES FOR SOUL-CULTURE
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which we call sight, if there are no vibrations coming out of the object, is of course not produced; but if this substance influences us in certain ways, the impli. cation is that there is something moving or producing vibrations, and these cannot exist unless there is some material substance which is vibrating. The very fact that something is moving in some way and influences us in some peculiar way implies that there is something material about this. If there are no vibrations the substance is not material. It need not exist in a form which will give us the inpression of any colour, smell, etc. There is nothing which can partake both of the attributes of soul and of matter ; the attributes of matter are directly contrary to those of the soul. While one has its life in the other it does not become the other. How can that soul live in matter when its attributes are of a different nature ? By our own experience we know that we are obliget to live in surroundings which are not congenial to us, which are not of our own nature. People feel that they are not related to their surroundings; there must be some reason for their being obliged to live in thos: surroundings, but there must be a reason in the intelligence itself; it can not be in the material substance. We know that this is a fact, because intelligence cannot proceed from anything which is purely material. No material substance has given any evidence of having ppssessed intelligence; it might have done so when there was life in it, as we are quite sure, influenced by material
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