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THE PRACTICAL PATH. show. The case with the victim of sporting lust, however, stands on a different footing, since the feelings of anger, horror, pain and the like are not habitual with him. Hence, its future re-birth would not necessarily be amongst the worst types of living beings, though the predominant feelings of the closing moments of life might impart their tinge to the character already formed, and bear fruit in the shape of nicha gotra and inauspicious surroundings.
Thus, no one who has studied the true nature of his soul and of the causes which tend to prolong its bondage would ever find fault with ahims being the true path of liberation and the highest dharma.
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