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I am the Soul
understood, whether or not to feel the injury to the body is my
option."
“Is that so? Sir! How can that be?”
"That is, O King, that is how it is! The soul does not consider the body as its own. Body is inanimate and the inanimate follows the characteristics of the inanimate. “The body is to itself and I am in my spirit. Once such feeling arises, the pain of whatever happens to the body need not be suffered! Atma is death-less. It does not die at all."
“Then the lakhs of people that I killed until now, didn't their souls die?!
“Yes, Alexander! You killed many. But they are all deathless. Hence they have not died. But owing to your arrogant ambition of conquering the world, you have harboured cruel feelings in the act of killing, and that has brought upon you sins in great magnitude!?
“Sir! What is the effect of that?"
"Well, you live this all here and die, and then after death there is the extreme misery of hell!".
“Then will I have to bear sorrow?”?
“Yes, there is no doubt about it! The undying spirit carries with it its own sins and virtues and it has to suffer its fruit. Brother! You have committed great sins. You will have to suffer!”
And Brothers! Alexander understood. What his teacher Aristotle had intended to do by taking a Saint to Greece, had happened right here, in the company of this Saint. Alexander placed his sword at the feet of the Saint and vowed not to kill anybody thereafter.
Having learnt the essence of many lives from the Indian Saint, Alexander turned sensitive like a flower and returned.
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