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Rebirth A Philosophical Study
of Reality. It only presents a partial and fragmentary picture of Reality. It is, therefore, through Intuition and the experiences of the seers that the trans-empirical truths have been grasped and realised. And the law of Karma and rebirth is as ancient as civilization itself. We my accept them as the fruit of ancient pyschological experience.
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The doctrine of Karma and the consequent principle of Rebirth are expressions of the highest knowledge and experience of the seers. Its logical justification is neither possible nor necessary. The ascetic Kaladevala's prediction of young Siddhartha Gautama that he would be the Buddha need not be taken as a mere story. It has a great significance in presenting the experience of the seer. The story is told of Pythagoras demonstrating with a man who was beating a dog, because in the howling of the animal he recognised the voice of a departed friend. Broad says that speculative philosophy should take into consideration the religious and mystical experience of mankind. It is they who are in constant touch with the innermost depth of life and to them we are to look for guidance. Such enlightened ones" or 'sages are the firsthand exponents of philosophy.73
72. Contemporary British Philosophy: (Ed. by Muirhead H, 1924). Critical and Speculative Philosophy.
73. McTaggart: Some Dogmas of Religion, p. 129.
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