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Moreover, you are under the impression that as caitanya-the essence of life of the body can be accurately experienced from the body that has become strong and healthy owing to the use of nuit ritior's cutstarces lil e ghee, milk etc, the life or caitanya is born of the body which is an assemblage of different matters, This belief of yours also, is not correct, because although the body ncurished in this way, is helpful to the caitanya or life, it on account of its being only helpful, it cannot be said that life is born of a body. The effect of melting takes place in gold due to the application of fire i-e the fire is helpful in producing the effect of melting, but it cannot be said that the effect of melting is born (f fire, but it is believed that melting is produced from gold, and hence the quality of melting is the nature of gold. In the same way, because the body is helpful in the manifestation of life's phenc mena, it can never be said that life is born of the body, but the said life is born of the soul, and the life or caitanya is the quality of the soul. Besides, many persons in poʻst ssion of stout and healthy bodies, have little knowledge, while others with lean bodies, are found to possess great krovledge Then, where remains the law that a strong and healthy bod.ed man has great knowledge ? and when a law of that kind does not remain, how can it be believed that caitanya(life) is born of a body ? If caitanya is produced from the body, how can there be no caitanya or life in a corpse when it has a body?
Moreover, when a thing is changed with a change in another thing, the latter may be called its effect i-e the latter may be said to have been produced from the former When cloth made out of white threads is coloured red the threads also become red, and hence, it is believed that the cloth is produced from the red threads but in case of the body and the caitanya (life), it does not so happen; because the caitanya of a mad man is affected on account of a change in his mental state, but his body remains the same-it is un-affected by the change. Then, liow can it be believed that 'caitanya' is born of a body
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