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quan agar, stigagar (Earth is god, water is god )etc.occuring in the Veda, you are led to believe that the elements do exist. The words of the Veda, which prove and disprove the existence of elements. have caused a doubt in your mind. But you must know that the sentence, Fagu Ania etc.
Proves the deceptive character of Jiva's relation with wealth and women and not the non-existence of five elements. If, on the other hand, we support that nothing exists in fact, we cannot account for the creation of this world. Therefore, O Learned man, you must not doubt in the existence of the five elements. Believe that they are real.” After bearing this instruction Vyakta's doubt was removed; and he, too, offered himself with all his disciples for consecration before the Lord like his predecessors.
The fifth Pundit Sudharma believed that the form of the Jiva in the next birth is the same as it is in the present, for he thought that the result was always similar to the cause just as a rice seed can produce rice alone and not wheat. But the Lord said that his belief was wrong and told him that it had been occasioned by misunderstanding the text of the Veda like his predecessors. "Such self-contradictory passages," he said", as gent à garansa, qua: qyrah which proves the similarity of Jiva in different births and szitian & ga Artà a: a griai gà which proves the dissimilarity of Jiva in different births, have caused a doubt in your mind. I will explain to you the true meaning of these passages which is as follows. Please listen to me attentively.
The first sentence means that a man, who is endowed with the qualities of the nobility and tenderness of heart, can again become a man in his next birth. But it does not
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