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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
Then the chief minister entered the black palace and he found only four men sitting there. They were also good people with faith, sense of discrimination, and observance of righteousness to their capacity. Still, they had occupied the black palace. The chief minister knew one or two fellows from them.
The minister asked, “How did you occupy this black-house?
They replied, “Your honour ! that is not the case. We have deliberately entered this palace as we still do not deserve to enter the white house. Till this day we have learnt a lot about righteousness and sins, still we have not been able to avoid sins and we have laid down many allowances in what we practise. Under such circumstances how are we entitled to enter the whitehouse?
We know this much, those who do not act violently, who do not hvard, do not entertain anger, do not crave for respects and honours, do not practise frauds, do not fall a prey to avarice, do not hold wrong beliefs, do not launch upon quarrels, are the righteous ones in real sense of the term. We cannot claim to be righteous still. So, we believe that we are unrighteous. Of course, we aspire to be free from such state very soon, still we cannot be audacious enough to claim ourselves as the righteous persons."
The chief minister said, “Gentlemen, compliments to you and to your self-analysis. You cannot practise religion or righteousness as you have discerned it, but you cndeavour for such practice with effort to eliminate flaws if any. Thus you can be rightly called religious or righteous. Indeed this city is proud of persons like you only.”.
Thereafter they were led to the white house and on their mode of life being explained all bowed down their heads in shame. This experiment convinced all about the fact that the number of the righteous persons was far smaller than that of the unmeritorious.
We have discussed at length that the soul is bound by the fetters of 'Karmas' since the times immemorial. Now we shall explain how that 'Karmic' bondage is created. All of you should accept that the effect necessarily presumes the cause. All the thinkers of the world have admitted the veracity of this fundamental principle and the same is hailed everywhere all over the world. The science has also admitted this principle as undebatable.
