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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
deeds rise higher in the course of their career. This is because the cementing paste of matter is less sticky in virtue than in vice, the one implying liberality and self-restraint and the other the full gratification of one's selfish lustful impulses. When matter is no longer drawn into the soul, by the withdrawal of attention from the objects of desire (in the process of self-contemplation), the impulses are no longer fed, and begin to break up. On the other hand if the material coat becomes too thick, in consequence of vicious living, the soul may be deprived of the conscious function so much as to fall into the lowest grade of life characterized by the barest susceptibility to respond to sensations of touch.
In nirvāṇa the soul is devoid of matter and impulses and lesiyās altogether, and only exists as Pure undefiled and undefilable Light !
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