King Pradeshi

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Vol. II/No. 4. Eternal Wisdom 11 heaven, come and tell me what it is like there, so that I am convinced of the importance of Virtue ( gouet ) and Sin ( 919 ), and so start living in accordance with the tenets of Dharma." "Then my father was on his death bed, and realising that his time was at an end, I said to him : "O Father, in your life you have done nothing in accordance with what men call Dharma; hence you will from now on live in hell. So when you are born in hell, come and tell me what it is like there, so that I am convinced of Virtue ( 909 ) and Sin (919), and by stopping all sinping, I come to follow the tenets of religion." "After the death of both of them, I have waited with great eagerness for them, but none of them, who loved. me so dearly, have come back; and so, I have decided that this talk of heaven and hell is false." Argument II: " There was once a thief who was sentenced to death; and after his sentence was carried out, I had his body cut in very very small pieces to see where the Atma dwelt. But, I could not locate the Atma in any one of the pieces. So I decided that there is no such thing as the Atma." Argument III : "Once I weighed a thief very carefully before and after his death, but I could not detect the slightest difference. If there was something called the Atma which departed at death from his body, surely there would have been an ever so slight a reduction in weight ? But no such thing happened, So I have decided that there is no such thing as the Atma." Argument IV: "Once I had locked up a thief in a very very tight casket and thouroughly sealed it. Then after a few days, I had the casket opened. There I saw that the body was dead and full of many insects. Now if the