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This has been explained because it has a bearing on the subject.
68. Q.-What are the views about future life of the followers of other religions?
A. The soul is considered to be beginningless by many men. According to this belief the soul having given up its gross body in the past assumes a variety of new bodies according to its good or bad actions. The future life of soul is its giving up body in one life and assuming a new body in the next. According as the present birth of a soul is determined by its past life so will its future life be determined by the actions of present life and those of the preceding lives. When all the actions have extinguished in a life, then there will be no more future life. Those who believe that the soul is not beginningless but one created by the God are wrong because we have already discussed as to the ability of God in such matters. Nothing can be produced in the world without a