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64. Compounds of elements can be seen, But not the soul that's original; The soul is the seer and not the seen,
Nothing can create the soul eternal. From matter consciousness may rise, Or consciousness might it create; Is not the experience of the wise, It never happens, say the great. 66. If out of any element,
One is not created at all; It cannot be put to an end,
The soul is seen thus eternal. 67. In beings like snakes anger's untaught, It shows the former birth's habit; Therefore the wise have deeply thought, The soul has lost last body, not it. One sees in childhood, youth and age,
There's knowledge of being the same; So see the soul's all states but change,
Remaining ever the substance same. One who describes absolute change,
Of everything at every moment; Must be the same who knows and says, This falsifies his own statement. 70. Nothing is lost absolutely,
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See water changes as the steam; If consciousness is off totally,
Find out the ocean of soul-stream. The third doubt as the pupil's plea,
The soul himself does no bondage; Or bondage acts itself ugly,
Affixed by nature, or as knowledge. The soul is unalloyed for ever,
'Tis bondage that is really bound; Or God is goading, what's soul power? Therefore the soul remains unbound.
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