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( 341892 the Soul in ordinary human experience. It is capable of undergoing the hardest endurances. Soul is a simple, indivisible, indestructible and incorruptible substance. When it comes under the power of Kārmic matter, these powers are gradually weakened. Foreign energies then begin to work. The Soul then becomes liable to transmigrate into the cycle of births and deaths. It takes several bodies as human, animal, celestial, hellish, &c.. Now under these circumstances, in proportion the foreign influence predominates, the spiritual power is crippled. Human beings under different capacities begin to work for wealth, power and other things infatuated by greed, lust, pride, hypocrisy, anger, &c. Temptations begin to multiply, habits and environments grow impurified and defiled, means of liberation are outwardly and scantily resorted to, competition in maintaining prestige and honour strongly increases, and struggle for bare maintenance becomes keen. Thus environed, these human beings work in different avocations of life, viz., in commerce, politics and arts, saturated with strong inclinations of hoarding up money and also in securing everything to themselves to the exclusion of others, by means of disgraceful, dishonest and condemnable, though sometimes with fair externals. There are manifold differences in the status, capacities and states of consciousness, but the generality of the people works quite reckless of the principles and high sentiments calculated to further the spiritual progress and elevation. So the author has rightly painted the world in dark colour with the
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