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They do not, certainly, arise when we are left to ourselves, that is without the one or the other or boil, of the causes just enumerated. Indeed, so far as physical pain is concerned, it is the resultant of physical pro. cesses or of chemical action between different substances and elements going on in the body, and not a spontane. ous growth froin within the soul.
From the above analysis of the nature of happiness we are entitled to conclude that the soul is itself the repository of purest joy which it vainly seeks to exract from its surroundings. .. How is it, then, that this natural happiness is not always enjoyed by the soul? The answer to this all important question is furnished by the fact that our infatuations and ignorance have defled the natural attributes, of our being whose properties have become vitiated in consequence. To the extent to which these infatuations and ignorance are destroyed in us, do the natural attributes of our souls become ours to be enjoy. ed by us. Verily shall the soul experience full perfect happiness and enjoy all-embracing infinite knowledge when the forces that stand in the way of their realisation are destroyed. Immortality shall also be the reward of the conqueror of these enemies of the soul.
The decreeing of Omniscience, Blissfulness and Immortality in favour of the soul is tantamount to declaring it to be its own God, inasmuch as these are the principal attributes associated with our most exalted
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