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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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some water to drink and then we start with our work”. The goldsmith was happy and thought they would die no sooner would they drink water".
Goldsmith with his rope and a pot started drawing water from the well—then the thieves gave a push and the goldsmith departed for the next world. The thieves came to the golden-bar but being fully overpowered with the fatal effect of poison died on the spot.
Thus lure of gold killed two Rajputs, one monk, one goldsmith, and six thieves. Still the bar of gold was lying there only and none could carry even a small piece therefrom.
Goddess of wealth said, "Don't you realize how people are infatuated under my influence ? I disregard them, I spurn at them, still they are after me".
Goddess of knowledge replied, “Thus the fool and the ignorant follow you to reap only miseries and those devotes of knowledge worship me and enjoy life being fully engrossed in me. Now withdraw your mystical web otherwise many ignorant people will be ruined".
Thereafter the goddess of wealth made the slab of gold invisible.
Karmas deciding the life-span are four-fold (1) Karmas deciding godly life. (2) Karmas deciding human life. (3) Karmas deciding animal life. (4) Karmas deciding hellish life. Among these four varieties last one is evil while the rest ones are auspicious. Gods, human beings and the animals love their life while the hellish beings condemn their life and they try to get rid of their life as early as possible.
There are 71 sub-species of Karmas deciding personality. Out of them 37 species are auspicious and 34 are evil ones. They are :
Life existences are four : Godly, Human, animal and hellish. The first two are auspicious while the rest are evil. In animal existence the Soul has to undergo various sufferings and in hellish existence suffering is unbearable and immense. You must have come across the pictures of hellish beings wherein the officers in charge are reported as torturing immensely the Souls degraded in the hell. Tortures which you suffer in the present life are comparatively nothing.
