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qualites and properties of its own. Modern science has recognised the indestructible quality and other inherent properties of matter. The soul though entirely different from matter and is separable from its conjugation, is formed as bound with the Karmic matter, like milk and water, and so long as it is in conjugation with the Karmic matter, it has a close relationship with it.
Though the qualities or the properties of matter cannot obliterate the inherent, natural and inseparable qualities of the soul, i. e.. knowledge, perception, etc., they can blur the natural vision of the soul for the time being, e. g., an intoxicated man. Wine has its own properties of stupifying the mind. When it is kept in the bottle, it does not act because the bottle does not possess the quality of consciousness or intelligence. But it acts as soon as it reaches the stomach of a man. So, too, with soul and matter. Matter does not destroy the inherent quality of the soul. *The soul needs
...nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul."
- Robert Prowning in Rabbi Ben Ezra. **Fool ! all that is at all, Lasis ever, fast recall; Earth changes, but ihy soul and God stand sure."
- Robert Browning in Rabti Ben Ezra,
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