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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
that an organ of thought would be organized in the soul's new body after death under the circumstances. Such a being will fall back into the animal kingdom. There is another type of souls that do employ the organ of thought, but only to cause distress and pain to others. They devise newer methods of harassing others, and delight in their work. They will naturally develop the central organ in their next reincarnation ; but their impulses will be the most violent and their souls will be clogged with much matter. These are the people who are destined for the regions of suffering and pain--helllife, is it is termerl, which is, however, terminable, luckily.
Those whose impulses are not allowed to run away with their wits will be reborn among men, and those who endeavour to eradicate them systematically, by means of self-rienying austerities, will go to happier surroundings -heavens as they are called—which alas! are also terminable like hells. Virtana, the happy home from which no one ever returns, or cares to return, is attained when the impulses are destroyed altogether. Then no longings are left in the soul, and knowledge is freed from the agitations of the will once for all and ever!
The two rules that govern the coming together of spirit and matter, are these :
(i) the quantity of matter pouring into the soul
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