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MIRA AND MAHAVIR
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MAHAVIR-There you are. That is how I bore down all
opponents in the debate. Have you anything more
to say? KRISHNA-You are so wise and perhaps you will tell
me a few things. Do you believe in the existence of a human soul ? and what do you say about those --believed to be prophets, sages and saints-who
claim that they have seen God ? MAHAVIR_That is mysticism, you know, I do not know
if I have a soul or not. But I believe in consciousness, and each one las his own consciousness. As for the statements of your prophets, sages and saints, who can belicve in them ? If they had seen the same God, their statements would have been the same. But they are so different. These men require a. doctor-a psycho-analyst. They suffer from hallucinations Now you understand!
KRISHNA_Yes. So you deny God and all authority
in support of his belief, and believe only in Nature.
Then why not say that Nature is your God ? MAHAVIR-You cannot catch me that way. Nature is
physical force, mass, energy. I suppose God is believed to be different, something moral and spiritual and all that. . If you agree that God is a mere physical force, I do not mind a name,-and, after all, what is there in a name? You see, I have learnt the art of argument. If you do not believe in
