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why is it not perceived or seen or felt like a pot or a piece of cloth? .
The disciple, therefore, contends that there is no soul and hence there need not be a path to liberate the soul and hence one need not undergo any spiritual excercises. He, therefore, requests the preceptor to clear the doubt by giving reasons for the existence of soul. It is obvious that in these objections of the desciple, the argument is advanced from the sceptic point of view which does not accepť the existence of soul. Further, according to the sceptics there is only one means of valid knowledge, namely, sense perception. And according to them what is not perceived by the sense does not exist.45
Answer :
The preceptor replies and refutes the above objections as follows :
i) The body is taken to be the soul because of the identification of the body as the soul from beginningless time, but they are different as a sheath and a sword.46
ii) Soul is the seer of external objects and of itself too; soul's existence is felt constantly.
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