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the very gods with many more senses, being Death necessarily knows of the much greater knowledge, far greater matter aright, to question him on the intellectual, argumentative, and heads, that is, kill oneself. other powers, than man. It will point A s for the seat of the soul in the out, however, that, say what you will body, Samkara will generally locate on the subject of the soul in the it in the heart although he will worst strain that you can command, admit that it is all-pervasive and is the soul cannot be denied success- thus in a senese everywhere in the fully, which is all that need count body-like a point PON, say, a circle for purposes of genuine philosophy which, by virtue of the fact that dealing with the soul. The short, it satisfies the equation to the baculine argument of Samkara against circle xa+y2=cmay be said to be the denial of the soul is 'It is even everywhere on it. Samkara will thus the soul of the person who denies
concede in a measure to the Jaina it 2 That is to say, every denial philosophy that the soul is of the implies, in fact needs for it, an same size as the body it inhabits. It intelligent denier; the true denier in
may be worth noting here that although the man or woman who denies the Samkara-Vedanta may seem to be a soul is itself his or her soul. Thus bloodlessly intellectual system all head will Samkara with a single short and no heart (as. Swami Vivekananda argument bury deep the whole world for one
for one saw it nearly to be), it is not of light and laboured arguments indifferent to the emotional needs of against the soul so that none of them
men and women, whence its locating can ever rise again. If even this the soul in the heart (which is argument of Samkara's, alongwith
generally acknowledged to be the seat others in him in favour of the soul,
of feelings and emotions) and not its immortality, its oneness with Truth, the wonderful head or the mysteryetc., doesn't resolve one of one's
ridden 'pineal gland' where Descartes
rie doubt about the soul, whether it is
located it. or not, whether death destroys it or
A question and its answer; not, the quickest and surest way to
the JIVA and the MANAS. be enlightened on the head is, as the
It might be asked here 'If man Katha Upanishad puts it naively, to
is God (i. e., the perceiving soul in go to Yama, the god of death, who
man is God), how is it that he some 2 Samkara's commentary on the times feels miserable, sometimes
VEDANTA-SUTRAS, I, I, 4. depressed, sometimes angry, and the
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