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Tau di h-e-Mar a m 30 offered. Of course, the possibility is there that such unholy teachings might have been added and interpo- lated later quite like so many other false teachings. For instance, the teaching that this universe is without a creator, or that every existent in terms of its matter and spirit is eternally original, self existent, and its own god, or the teaching that there is no escaping the vicious circle of reincarnation, or the teaching that a married woman who happens to be without a male issue is permitted to cohabit with a stranger with a view to begetting a son, or the teaching that eternal salvation is impossible even for the saintly including the rishis 40 , or the saints to whom the four Vedas are reported to have been revealed. Nor, for that matter, can they ever earn the permanent title to be remembered with an enduring reverence and respect. Instead, it is quite possible that getting caught in the cycle of birth and rebirth, they may well assume the shape of an animal and cease to be human. Indeed this metamorphosis may well have actually taken place. According to their warped thinking when a person is spiritually superior to an Aut a r 41 or even the rishis of the Vedas, it is not only possible but necessary for him since it is inexorably laid down under their supposed laws of Nature, that he should be reborn 40 Literally worshipper of God; an ascetic. [Translator] 41 The one in whom God manifests Himself; prophets; in whom God appears to the world. [Translator]