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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
You are well aware of the dreadful consequences of this great disease of false apprehension. The disease causes the soul to believe false things as true and true things as false, and the soul is lead astray to multiply births and deaths. During the journey in the universe the soul has to suffer births and deaths, old age and other miseries. This highly "detrimental” false apprehension should be dismissed from your heart and there lies the test of your integrity and wisdom.
On the lines of the Great Lord's words we proclaim, "Cast off your false apprehension and the sun of right apprehension shall dawn in your path enlightening all objects in their reality. Without right apprehension, one cannot get right-knowledge.
The scriptures lay down: "Without right apprehension right knowledge or right conduct is not possible and without right conduct freedom from actional bondage is not possible and with such bondage salvation is not possible".
This means : one with sense of discrimination, with full faith in God and religious perception can only attain true knowledge and the rest stand nowhere.
Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta declares : "With faith one attains knowledge, and with knowledge one attains self-restraint and such a person attains bliss with Selfknowledge."
The ignorant without faith and the sceptic are degraded. The sceptic enjoys not this world, not that world and not even happiness".
Everything is in vain and useless if a man with all learning, reputation and awards from the Government cherishes no faith. All these learnings, reputations and Government awards cannot rescue him from this worldly existence.
Authors on morals declare : “A wretch though learned should be avoided. A serpent though decked with a jewel is no doubt dangerous".
The Scholars who reason with no faith are the wretch and with their insipid reasonings they perish themselves and destory others.
There lived a scholar of the science of reasoning who always tried to argue and reason and was not prepared to accept any
