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THIRD LECTURE.* .
The consciousness of the individual is not identical with the physiological activity of the body: the one may even be dependent upon, but it is different from the other. Consciousness is one thing, activity of brain molecules is another different thing.
Knowledge, when it is right, true and corresponds to the facts, is the essential quality of the soul; it is that which would be manifested if there were no mistakes; the cause of mistakes in the knowledge obscuring karma; owing to karna we make mistakes in perceiving, judging, etc.
Anything that takes place on account of the joint action of the soul and the karma is, froin the ideal standpoint, the ngatural condition of the soul.
There was not any particular time in the past when this entity called the soul was without any karınas; because it we assume that there was then it follows that after taking the trouble to remove the karmas through mental and moral disciplines, after going
*(The following lecture, was taken in very difficult cireno ste uces, and is somewhat imperfect in corsequence.)
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