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Old 04-16-2009, 10:09 AM   #8 (permalink)
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The soul is the place where we feel pleasure.

The mind is the place where we calculate how to receive the pleasure

If you take the time to analyze your desires, you'll discover that they are aimed at transient things - things which will eventually die away. Perhaps a moment enters here and there where you contemplate the eternal, but this moment is always followed by drives for transient things. there is no eternal soul until we attain one in this lifetime, through working on our desire until we really want an eternal soul. Then, this desire expands our mind: it starts calculating how to fulfill this desire with eternal life. When the desire is finally filled - not from the calculation in one's mind, but from beyond this calculation (you can say, from the mind existing above one's mind). When this "Great Mind" sees that the person has done everything in his power to achieve eternal life, and that this person has a complete desire ONLY to achieve this... then this "Great Mind" decides that the person is now worthy of having hisdesire for eternal life fulfilled.

Until one reaches this stage, of attaining the soul in one's lifetime in this world, such a person will continue reincarnating in this world, dressing after dressing, until the stage when this desire starts evolving and causing inner discomfort.
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