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The Self Realization
Soul? Therefore, it is wrong to hold that a non-sentient substance helps directly or indirectly the birth or destruction of a sentient Soul.
Besides, who can be legitimately held to have experienced the so-called birth and destruction of a sentient soul in the non-sentient body? If A knows that B is born, A should be prior to B. Also if A knows that B is dead then A should survive B. But the disciple has argued that the living body and the Soul are born together and they die together. So the Soul, the knower was not prior to its birth, nor does it survive its destruction. We have already argued that the non-intelligent or non-sentient body cannot know anything about the sentient Soul, either its eternity or its momentariness. Now we argue that on the theory that the Soul and the body are born together and that they die together, even the soul the knower cannot record its birth or death and therefore the theory is contrary to reason and experience. To conclude, the theory put forth by the disciple is based on ignorance of the nature of the Soul. The Soul is ever formless, it can never be thicker or thinner, it has no size, it is pure sentience, all-knowing, impartite, eternal and immortal. The birth and death of the living beings are simply due to the contact of five gross elements and their dis-integration after a certain period of time.
जेना अनुभव वश्य ए, उत्पन्न लयनुं ज्ञान 1 ते तेथी जुदा विना, थाय न केमे भान 118311 Jena anubhava vashya e, uptanna layanu jnana, Te tethi juda vina, thaya na keme bhana. 63 The seer of the rise and fall, Must be quite different from the scene, Can hear the dead their death-roll-call? Or ere one's birth what can be seen ? 63
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