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CHAPTER XVI, 1-7.
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vesture, and is dispersed, and that spiritual life (hako) which was with its heart, and is even on account of this—that is: 'Because in my bodily existence and worldly progress there was no atonement for sin and no accumulation of righteousness'— also in mourning about it thus : 'In the prosperity which this body of mine had, it would have been possible for me to atone for sin and to save the soul, but now I am separated from every one and from the joy of the world, which is great hope of spiritual life; and I have attained to the perplexing account and more serious danger.' 5. And the gnawing becomes as grievous to it, on account of that body, as a closely-shut arsenal (afzâr bêta-f badtům) and a concealed innermost garment are useless among those with limbs provided with weapons and accoutrements, and are destroyed.
6. And of that, too, which is righteous and filled with the great joy that arises from being really certain of the best existence, then also the spiritual life which was with its body, on account of the great righteousness, fit for the exalted (firâkhtagânik), which was ever accumulated by it with the body, is well developed (madam hù-tâshido), and the wonderfully-constructed body is destroyed in the manner of a garment, particularly when its dispersion (a pasisno) occurs thereby.
7. And the consciousness of men, as it sits three nights outside of the body, in the vicinity of the body, has to remember and expect that which is truly fear and trouble (khâr) unto the demons, and reward, peace, and glad tidings (nôvik) unto the spirits of the good; and, on account of the dispersion and injuring of the body, it utters a cry spiritually,
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