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he dies and that there is no soul in the dead. In this way the effect of the existence of soul is obviously perceptible to us and therefore we can easily comprehend the existence of atma or soul.
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Body is the abode of soul. He who dwells in a house is distinct and separate from the house. If the house or the place falls down or the period of tenancy comes to an end the dweller of the house leaves the house and goes to another house to dwell. In the same way, when the duration of time of the existence of soul in the body comes to an end, that soul according to the Ayushya Karma (its deeds in this birth by which he earns the life-span of the next birth) goes away to another place, takes a new birth and there lives in a new body; when the duration in that birth comes to an end, it goes away to a third birth. There he puts on a third body. In this way from the eternal past, the line of births and deaths continues according to Karma (deeds of each soul).
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As a sword is an independent entity from its : scabbard, this soul also has an indepentent existence from its body. Though ghee (butter) exists in milk it is not perceptible. By some process, when
