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develops his personality and he goes beyond his self-centred isolation.
Tire hum in person Ility remains imperfect so long it is not united with God. God is an 'other' for him. But one who has become identified with God enjoys blessedness, divinity, peace, universality, infinity and omniscience. There is in individual an aspiration for ascent and identity with God. It is at his spiritual height that man experiences God and gets uniled with him. Man fulfils himself in his vital contact with God and in being transformed into the divine being or superman.
Reality is everywhere complex. It is so even in the atom. The self as real need not be simple. Locke confesses that a simple substance distinct from its manifestations could be a hidden something. I know not what is behind', Hume's argument against the theory of self as a being or a substance which in sorne inexplicable way transcends the totality of its content still hold good. Such a substance is not observable and there is no evidence that it exists. Kant argues that the notion of self-contradictory, is an object of the self and never the self itself. If the soul were of the indestructible atomic character, its existence would be of no value at all. The self has no elemcut which is self-identical throughout. The body is continuously changing. Thoughts and emotions are continuously changing. There is nothing concrete in the individual which is not produced and which will not pass away, nothing from which there is no escape, or change.
The human being is an emergent aspect of the worldprocess and not a substance different in kind from the process itself. Persistence of pattern constitutes unity of a thing. Though everyone of the constituents of the body is changing, the bodily system as organised totality endures. It is the same with regard to the human self which is a unity of diverse parts with an enduring structure. As many of its elements are transcient, the plan of organisation is, however, preserved.
In the history of thought, the individual self has often been conceived on the analogy of a physical thing. It is said to possess an ultimate core of reality which remains unchanged throughout the changes of its qualities or states. It is viewed
