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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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Now present before it the other toy and it begins to play with the new toy and forgets the former one. Thus when a human being enters this new world he forgets the ailments he bore in the mother's womb.
The child sometimes cries in the womb. One Dr. Chhaya's wife, at Ahmedabad found her belly swelling. The doctors opined it was a gland inside. Best doctors were consulted and they agreed that surgical operation was inevitable.
When she was about to be operated, one prominent doctor from Meerut happened to be in Ahmedabad for some personal important work. He charged Rs. 1000 for consultation. It was decided that he should be consulted. Doctor from Meerut examined the stomach of the pregnant woman and asked with surprise, “What are you about to do?” The other doctors smilled for his stupidity. They replied, "We intend to operate her for removing the gland." Then he placed the Stethoscope on the woman's stomach and showed to other doctors that the child in the womb was crying. The other doctors were much abashed. If they operated, two lives might have been endangered. Very recently these doctors expressed their gratitude for the doctor's diagnosis. This woman nourished the foetus and delivered a child at the proper time. Pains of death are eight times more acute than the pains of birth. The soul suffers these pains as if thousands of scorpions sting him simultaneously. From these pangs soul glides on to the pangs of birth which are milder to endure comparatively and as a result the soul forgets the pangs of death.
Coming to the argument of remembrance, we retort, that a man does not remember the incidents of his life, when he was a child of one or two; but that does not mean that this stage of childhood did not exist.
A child in the womb has no company. Still one is cruel, the other is kind and the third one is greedy while the fourth one is generous. They bear very often quite contrary nature to that of their parents. An idiot father's son is a university professor who is again the father of a great fool. History has proved that a heroic father's timid son lost his kingdom because of his timidity.
Whence this nature of the child arrived ? And there cannot be any alternative reply except that the child has entered this
| SR No. | 023322 |
| Book Title | Atmatatva Vichar Or Philosophy Of Soul |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaylakshmansuri, Ghanshyam Joshi, Kirtivijay Gani |
| Publisher | Mohanlal D Mehta |
| Publication Year | 1963 |
| Total Pages | 568 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 39 MB |