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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
The King said ! "There is no disease I suffer from, but after I consume a few morsels my dish becomes at once empty. I then do not like to demand from the cook so often. Lack of nourishment weakens my body day by day".
The Minister replied : "If this is the cause of your debility, I shall certainly cure it”.
The Minister having pondered over the statement of the King came to determine that some one with the help of collyrium became invisible to consume the royal diet. He should be apprehended any how. It is not easy to detect the invisible man but the Minister was profound with intelligence and so he planned to trap the invisible thief. The Minister spread very fine dust in the dinner hall and instructed the servants to close down all the doors no sooner did he make some signal. Then he sat in the corner of the dining hall and began to watch.
The king haying finished with his daily bath, worship and rituals, came in the dinner hall and sat on his place. The dinner was placed before him. In the meanwhile that thief arrived who began to relish the royal diet. The Minister found his foot-prints on the fine dust and the doors were closed on receiving the signal from the Minister. Then the Minister got kindled certain herbs and green firewood. The smoke was very dense and pungent to produce tears in the thief's eyes. These tears wiped out the collyrium applied. Collyrium thus disappearing, the thief lost hold over his invisibility and he became visible to be apprehended by the guards. The thief was sentenced to death and the Minister was heavily rewarded.
This means that imperceptible things are not perceived but apprehended by tricks.
HOW TO ERADICATE KARMAS
It is not necessary to catch hold of Karmas to eradicate them but such means should be employed so as to make them severed from soul. Such means are laid down by the Great Men. They say! "Just as impurities in gold are severed by fire, and water is separated from milk by the swan, penances sever Karmas intermingled with the Soul”.
