And, just as for Plato, so in the Vedic books this deathless, impassible Inner Man and very Self ‘dwells together with’ the human, mortal, passible self in the ‘house’ or ‘city’ of the body for so long as ‘we’ are alive. It is this (Holy) ‘Ghost’ that we ‘give up’ when we die: and the poignant question arises, ‘In whom, when I go forth, shall I be going forth?’ (Praśna Up. VI. 3), the answer, according to which we shall be ‘saved’ or ‘lost’ depending upon whether before the end we have known ‘Who we are’ (Jaiminīya Up. Br. IV. 19. 4, 5, Bhadārayaka Up. IV. 4. 14, Bhagavad Gītā, IV. 40, etc.).
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