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Just as boyhood, youth and old age are attributed to the soul through
this body; even so it attains another body. The wise man does not get
deluded about this. The contacts between the senses and their objects
which give rise to the feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain etc.
are transitory and fleeting. The wise man to whom pain and pleasure are
alike, and who is not tormented by these contacts becomes eligible for
immortality. The unreal has no existence and the real never ceases to
be. That alone is imperishable, which pervades this universe; for no one
has power to destroy this indestructible substance. The soul is never
born nor dies nor does it become only after being born. For it is
unborn, eternal, everlasting and ancient; even though the body is slain,
the soul is not. As a man shedding worn-out garments, takes other new
ones, likewise the embodied soul, casting off worn-out bodies, enters
into other which are new. Weapons cannot cut it nor can fire burn it;
water cannot wet it nor can wind dry it. For this soul is incapable of
being cut; it is proof against fire, impervious to water and undriable
as well. This soul is eternal, omnipresent, immovable, constant and
everlasting.
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