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different purposes, and though the electricity passing through them is the same, the functions and works of each different type differ according to shape, size, design and construction etc.
We also see that chloroform when inhaled makes the man senseless for all worldly purposes for a particular time. Alcohol has got an intoxicating effect of a very strong nature. All the time the man and the Soul remain the same but the Alcohol or the chloroform permeating the system obscures the visible consciousness of the Atman or the embodied being in some way or the other. Also by proper antidotes the effects of these two are removed eventually when desired.
So from all this we fiind that the capacity áto know" is always the faculty of Atman itself. It is not anything separate from it which may be attached to it after birth from outside sources. In a photo-plate the chemical takes on the reflected image but if it did not have that capacity no photo would have been formed inspite of thousand reflections falling on it.
