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no value now as the most valued force has
gone out of it. After a while, it starts stinking.
No one is ready to take its charge. Family
members and friends, who were ready to
spend large sums of money for keeping the
body and the soul together, are no longer
prepared to spend anything now as the soul
has deserted the body. Nobody has till now
been able to catch hold of the soul, but the
soul has been asserting its existence ever
since.
Gita gives the name `atma' to this vital
force. Gita presents a practically oriented
simple and beautiful interpretation of atma.
Gita became popular and was accorded a
place of honour on account of its idealistic,
lofty and inspiring ideas. Gita is the principal
source of knowledge about atma which is a
kind of elixir to mankind. Message of Gita has
a worldwide attraction. Thinking on immortality
of soul as enshrined in Gita is not to be found