The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c24.107

v1.c24.107

"The Father answered that the soul dwelt in the body as the form and the life of that body, and both together made one thing, called man. The Father proved this by the human operations of eating, walking and running; for these operations cannot be done by the body alone without the soul, but by both together. And for the same reason neither the body alone, nor the soul alone, but both together forming one single thing, make up what is called a man. Hence, it would not be in accordance with justice that any of them separately should be either punished or rewarded for the bad or the good deeds of the man; both together must be either punished or rewarded, since both together have done bad or good things. Then the missionary explained to him how a man dying in a state of sin, that is, in infinite malice, has to be punished with an infinite punishment. But to be a hundred years in the body of a dog was not an infinite punishment; therefore a place was necessary where, after passing away from this life, the sinner could be punished for ever without ever entering another body. As to the variety of men, from which the transmigration of souls was inferred, the Father replied that the potter from the same mud moulds a jar for the king's table and a basin for washing one's feet; in the same way God according to his will creates one to be a king and another to be a slave; and nobody can reasonably complain by asking: ‘Why was I made so?’