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strong then it remains the same for a longer time, but there is certainly a limit. In today's wonders of the world there are trees which are old as 200 or 500 years. Why! The Pyramids are there for such a long time. The majestic idol of Bhagawan Bahubali is also standing for over 1,000 years. But do you have a record of some thing that is as old as a 100,000 years or 10 million years and remaining even now? Of course, parts of human or animal bodies are found but they do have a time limit. Their time can also be ascertained. Thus the things in the world are born out of interaction and they also get destroyed.
But has any scientist or some great man ever found parts of an atma from somewhere? Has anybody found them? No!
So the very fact that the atma does not get changed over to some other form or into some parts, is the proof of its eternal nature.
Until now, Gurudev told us about the aspects of creation and destruction, and the eternal nature of atma. Further on, he analyses how the eternal nature, of the atma which has adopted to a body, can be proved.
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