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Soul and God
Conceptions of Soul
CHAPTER XVII.
SOUL.
Souls and the God-head-Materialistic conception of Soul-A bye-product of matter-Eastern and Western materialism compared-Charvak and Hekel STIC Girardian, the socialist-Cosmological and Moral diffi. culties involved in Materialism-Admissions by Huxley, Spencer and Darwin-The Jain conception of Spirit and Matter Their Correlativity-Pradeshas-Parts or Soul-units.-Conscious effulgence form the spiritual essence of the Soul.-Soul'a constitutional freedom-Ita Transmigration through the grades of Sansar and Emancipation.
While dealing with our conception of God, we have seen that the individual soul, when it becomes free from all taints and blemishes, reaches perfection characterised by omniscience and realizes itself as a self-conscious spirit of the nature of all-delight, distinct and separate from other than itself, it becomes God.
But what is this soul whch is thus potentially divine and attians to God-head, He being no other than the coalesence of the pure and free self-conscious spirits existing in a
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