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the crippling companionship of matter must be pure Divinity in actual manifestation, and there is no power in nature which can drag a perfect God into bondage and transmigration. This is the true sense in which a Perfect Soul is said to be all powerful ; for outside the holy land of Nirvana, karma is all powerful every where else, so that the greatest of Indras (Ruler of heavenly worlds), devas (celestial beings), asurns (demous) and men are all helpless before it. There is no power in nature that can interfere with the Perfect Souls in Nirvana ; Their happiness is unexcelled in all the three worlds ; Their perfection simply immeasurable. And who can describe the power of that Great One whose merest "glance" can acquire knowledge of all that is, of all that has been, and of all that shall ever be, unlimited by time and space ! How, again, shall we gauge the measure of the glory of that Most High Conqueror of the forces of darkness and evil whose supreme bliss nothing can mar, and whose unwavering dhyana none cau disturb even for the mil. lionth part of a second. The Perfect Soul is never affected by sleep, stupor, or laziness ; death, disease and senility cannot approach His presence, and Time attends upon Him only to place the choicest blossoms of Eternal Youth and Immortality at His holy worshipful feet. If omnipotence only mean all this, then such a Perfet Being alone is Omnipotent ; none else.
To revert to transmigration, I must tell you that it rests on the solid foundation of the eternity and indes
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