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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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and it cannot be visualised even with the help of a telescope which shows an object magnified hundred to thousand times. Only through its operative effects we can assert that some energy like electricity is existing.
Every house today resounds with a radio set and people use to say, "This song is relayed from Colombo, and this one is relayed from Calcutta or from America. But how could that song arrive here from Colombo, Calcutta or America? Did any one perceive it arriving? If it is argued that it arrived being motivated by ether waves, then who did see actually those waves of ether or ether itself? None. Thus its existence is evinced only from its operations.
Those who claim not to believe in what is not actually perceived with eyes can be asked whether they had their grandfather and whether their grandfathers had their grandfathers? What would they reply? Certainly they would respond, "Yes we had." And once more if they are questioned, "Had you your hundredth generation or the millionth generation ?" Then also they would reply, "Yes we had."
Now how could they say so? Who can see hundreth generation when scarcely one can see one's fifth generation? Those bygone generations are not alluded to even in the records of family bards, or historical treatises, or old manuscripts. Still they assert, "Yes we had."
In this case the only reason is: The generations are invisible but their operative effects are visible. Your very self-you are the operative effect. You are the naked proof. How could you exist if your hundredth or thousandth or millionth generation did not exist?
From this, so much is established that an invisible entity with visible result or effect, exists. We should believe in it and we should accept it as such.
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Now let us consider whether effective operation of Soul is visible. When a man dies his physical frame remains intact. form, the very nose, eyes, mouth, everything remains the sameunaffected. Still the dead person is incapable of any action. What is the reason? Just before death he could be hungry and