________________ 122 Shrimad Rajchandra Letter 530 weather based on certain factors such as cloud formations in the sky, so also one can make a conjecture about one's actions in previous lives based on certain behavioral traits. Similarly, based on one's characteristics in this birth, the soul's future incarnation can be predicted. Question 18 Who can see the past and future lives? Answer: Refer to the last answer (17). Question 19 On what basis do you claim certain souls to have attained liberation? Answer: If this question has been specifically addressed to me, then I would reply by saying that it is based on the words of these great souls and their behavioral traits, that one can experience to some extent within one's self. Based on these I can verify their attainment of liberation, and the scriptures offer evidence to this too. Question 20 On what basis do you say that even Buddha has not attained liberation? Answer: That is based on the postulates in Buddha's scriptures. If his own opinions were indeed like those that have been stipulated in his scriptures, then they appear to contain a contradiction; and that is
