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The Importance of Metempsychosis in Hinduism
In sikism, as in buddhism, the prime object of attainment is not paradise, but the total cessation of individual existence. The method by which this release from transmigration is to be accomplished is by the perfect recognition of identity with the supreme. When the soul fully realizes what is summed up in the formula, so ham i am that i e i am one with that which was and is and will be, then emancipation from the bondage of existence is secured. This is declared by nanak himself in the adi grant,. In these words, should one know his own self as the soham, he believes in the esoteric mystery. If the disciple gur muki knows his
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