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The Atman is the only existence in the human body which is

immaterial. Because it is immaterial, it cannot be a compound, and

because it is not a compound, it does not obey the law of cause and

effect, and so it is immortal. That which is immortal can have no

beginning because everything with a beginning must have an end. It

also follows that it muse be formless: there cannot be any form

without matter. Everything that has form must have a beginning and an

end.