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विभिन्न दार्शनिक विचारधारा सम्बन्धी विचारोका समुचित समाधान करनेकी आपकी शक्ति अद्भुत है। जब मैने पूज्यजी महाराज का ध्यान बौद्ध-विचारधारा-आत्मा जैसी कोई वस्तु नही और मनसे परे कछ नही, की ओर आकर्षित किया तो उन्होने तुरन्तं प्रत्युत्तर दिया
setting at rest the controversies in phylosopbical Speculation when I drew the attention of His Holines to the Buddist conception that bothing like the Soul and nothing beyond the Mind could be found in the human system, His Holiness very sharply replied that there Wal no confilct thére, as the mind which was the thinking apparatus in the human system, might be taken as idontical with the soul, a quality of which was consciousness When His Holiness was confronted with the vedantic thỏory of the unity of the pramatma, His Holiness observed that when the liberated souls sbone out brightly, side by side, like as many luminous bodies & person looking at the adjacent lamidous bodiea from a great distance might not notice their multiplicity and oven, on thi contrary, ontortain an idea of their unity, which was önly illusory and not real, when faced with the possibility of the existence of the Bheda-Buddhi, that is the discriminating knowledge that is X and not Y or Z. His Holiness observed that as the liberated souls were similar in quality, there could not be any such BhedsBuddhi in the liberated souls In addition to His scholar. thip and loftiness of moral and spritual character, H18 Holiness POBIEB888 splendid eloquence in bis mother tongue te daily addresses hundreds of his disciples,