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III
ATMA (Soul)
In this modern world, many have lost faith in religion and consequently they have become lethargic in their devotion, service and worship of the "Paramatma". The chief reason for this is that they do not believe in 'Atma' (soul). They have doubts regarding the existence of soul and once they begin to doubt the very existence of soul how could they believe in such things like Punya (good acts), Papa (bad acts) next world etc.?
This class of persons which does not believe in soul argues as follows: Just as other things are perceived by the eyes soul is not. Then how can one believe in a thing which is not perceptible by eyes?
In reply to this, the wise and the enlightened say that soul is a self existing entity and its existence is well proved. But since it is formless, it is not perceptible to our eyes.
Where do we see wind? Even so, if any body asks "Is there wind or not?" We have
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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