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7. The soul has to be an independent matter, very different from the body, like TV station, antenna and TV itself but what is transmitted is altogether different matter and independent of these instruments. Events or news telecast are independent, and happen in their own way, with its causes and effects; the media only transmits them to us. TV or its antenna do not feel sorry or happy over events.
8. Some argue that human beings are the product of five elements - earth, water, fire, air and space. These five elements are there even while cooking food in a vessel, but humans are not produced while doing so. Similarly, other cases can also be cited. It is well known that no matter is destructible; it merely changes its form, even when combined with other matters. They remain independent in any state of existence, as it is possible to separate them. Soul being an independent substance, it is feasible to separate it from the body through the process of purification. A dead body too is made of the same five elements but does not function.
If understood properly, one will accept, without any doubt, that the soul exists. Once this is done, one will do everything possible to move towards realisation of the true self.
NOTE ON EIGHT-FOLD CLASSIFICATION OF KARMAS
01 Knowledge-Obscuring Karma: A soul is capable of knowing instantaneously all that is happening or has happened or will happen in the entire universe. But different souls know about it very little and that too in varying degrees. Our present knowledge is like a drop in the ocean. Knowledge varies within different species such as insects, birds, animals, human beings, etc., due to this Karma.
