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it etc.' (Matt. x. 39). The denial of the soul is its slaying. The discovery of the deed is prevented by the body being conveyed to a place considerably distant from that where the fact took place'-this signifies the wholesale drastic constitutional changes that are implied in rebirth.
CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
The friends of the slain man who accuse the bâhiratman of having murdered the soul are the attributes of pure discrimination, judgment and the like which have come to suspect the real nature of the 'usurper.' The accused persons (the attributes of the bodily man) deny that there was a soul to be murdered. The evidence is not sufficient to convict the unrepentant bahiratman, This means that speculative intellectualism (as the mystics know of) is seldom sufficient to convince an unwilling disputant. A practical test is called for under the circumstances. 'Strike the "dead" with a part of the burnt nats.' It is done; and lo! a complete miracle is wrought. The cow that was worth three pieces of gold when alive is of inestimable value now. that it is dead! It is literally worth its weight in gold. The three pieces of gold for which living nafs was to be sold represent ample means for procuring necessaries, comforts and luxuries of life, or, according to another line of thought, ample provision for
(i) physical needs and bodily requirements, (ii) mental delights and æsthetic joys, and
(iii) gifts and offerings to gods.
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