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The Self Realization
Besides, it is the law universal that no object in the world can be totally destroyed. That which once exists can never totally cease to exist. An object may be found in one state at one moment and in the other at next moment or after some time. Science has proved that matter changes but is never completely destroyed. The atoms of which the material objects are formed remain indestructible though their compositions change. If non-destructibility is proved to be true of material objects how much more easy it is to admit the non-destructibility of the sentient Self which is superior to all material things. ? An earthen pot when broken returns to earth and to nothing else, and a golden ornament to gold. Similarly the sentient Self will maintain its sentience at all times and it will never mix with or merge into its opposite the non-sentient atoms. Hence the Soul is eternal and indestructible and incapable of merging or transforming itself into non-sentient objects. The disciple is challenged to find out any non-sentient transformation of the sentient self that he can imagine.
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