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<p class="paracenter">INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE SOUL
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<p class="para"> The individual has a soul. 
Likewise a collection of individuals, a group too has a soul. When persons 
habitually meet together for a certain purpose, they form a set or society and 
gradually tend to develop a common consciousness which is the beginning of a 
soul. At school, they who read together, the class, they who play together, the 
team, all who live and move together inspired by the same or similar impulses 
and ideas possess a rudimentary soul. In the same way, a bigger group, the 
nation has also a soul, each its own according to its nature, tradition and 
culture. Even a continent has a soul. One can speak of the soul consciousness of 
Europe, of Asia or of Africa. Indeed each cell of an organism has a 
consciousness of its own; it may be said to be the unit individual 
consciousness. Many such cells combine to form the organism, the individual (who 
in this way may be viewed as a composite or collective being). Many individuals 
form the family—-each family with its group consciousness (whence the idea of <i>
kuladharma, </i>the genius of the family or the tradition and stamp of a Royal 
House). Many families formed the tribe,
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<p class="para">here too each with its particular consciousness. And then 
families and tribes have formed the modern nation, each one a distinct and 
almost a well-developed soul. The grouping continues to enlarge and we have the 
many nations combining to form the human group as a whole; humanity too has its 
own consciousness and its own soul. There is no limit to the volume or dimension 
of the group. The earth has its soul consciousness, even as the sun or a star or 
any other planet. The solar system or a galactic system too is moved by its own 
secret consciousness.
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