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CHAPTER XXII, 3-XXIV, 2.
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mination (vikir) which is their own inward physician. 5. And should it be a passing away (vidarg) which obtains no light, and on account of their disquietudes they have gone to the understanders of remedies for strength for the remedial duties, and the way is closed, he proceeds with insufficiency of means. 6. And the soul of the body, which is the master of its house (kadak khûdâi), along with the animating life, goes out of the impotent body to the immortal souls', as a wise master of a house goes out of a foreign (anirano) house to a residence of the good worship.
7. It was also told to the ancient learned that life (khaya) is where there is a living spirit within the soul's body, which is connected with the soul", as much as a development (saritântano) of the body, and is the life (zivandakih) of the soul of a body of one passed away.
Chapter XXIV. 1. The twenty-third question is that which you ask thus: When he who is righteous passes away, where is the place the soul sits the first night, the second, and the third ; and what does it do ?
2. The reply is this, that thus it is said, that the
That is, when there are doubts about the fate of the soul, and the survivors can obtain no satisfactory assurances from the priesthood, the soul has to proceed to the other world without suitable provision for its happiness.
The MSS. have soul.' * M14 and J have which is the soul,' and omit the remainder of the sentence.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |