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differ from each other If they differ, they can do so only if they have got some foreign matter mixed up with them, they are then not pure
We see in the world that even among mankind different people have different degrees of happiness and misery, intellect and stupidity, health and sickness etc , 1 e. the inherent qualities of soul are found in different degrees We also see that animal kingdom and the plant kingdom possess the good qualities in a lesser degree This means that the embodied souls have got different properties of foreign matter attached to them and the less the quantity of foreign matter, the purer the inherent qualities of soul, 1. e. the inherent qualities of soul are covered by foreiga matter in different degrees in different souls
The natural aim of a living being can only be to remove the foreign matter and attain purity. The activities and actions of living beings show that the soulitself a living being exerting to that end, to get rid of all foreign matter and to attain the Pure State But owing to the influence of foreign matter, the embodied soul does not know the right way It is, so to say, groping in the dark and follows the path of trial and error. There have been souls in the past, who have been successful in their experiments fully or almost fully and they have shown the path for others to follow They have enlightened the path for others But every body is not capable of taking advantage of the results of their experiments. But people do take advantage in different degrees according to their capacities Those who have no faith 10 those experiments and their results, naturally get no advantage Others who bave got faith, get benefit to the extent of the strength of their faith and conviction Even though some have faith, they are incapable of acting upto it and so do not get the full advantage Even man, the most intellectual among living beings, has got certain weak nesses, due to the bondage of foreign matter attached to his soul, which does not allow him to act even according to his faith People know that to get intoxicated 15 bad and yet we find people becoming repeatedly mad with intoxicants The same applies to other acts
The whole universe 18 governed by definite laws, the laws of nature There are laws which concern matter, sirailarly there are laws which concern the soul. Modern science is busy with the former and has neglected the latter It has enabled man to send satellites thousands of miles away from the earth It has enabled man to break the atom It has shown man what a tremendous energy is released by breaking an atom and thus man's researches in the domain of matter contigue
There have been, likewise man who have made researches in the domain of soul They have shown that soul and its combination with matter and also its disassociation are governed by certain definite laws of nature. They have also discovered
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| SR No. | 010772 |
| Book Title | Ratnamuni Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma |
| Publisher | Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 687 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 21 MB |