UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE (BEGINNING)

∞∞∞∞UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE (BEGINNING)∞∞∞∞

FOR THE HEART OVERWHELMED WITH PITY AND EYES FILLED WITH TEARS

FOR THE HEART OVERWHELMED WITH PITY AND EYES FILLED WITH TEARS

FOR THE HEART OVERWHELMED WITH PITY AND EYES FILLED WITH TEARS

FOR THE HEART OVERWHELMED WITH PITY AND EYES FILLED WITH TEARS

How did worldly illusion overcome you at this crucial moment?

This is not appropriate for an honorable MAN OR WOMAN, nor does it lead to PEACE.

It is the cause of infamy.

Give up this unmanliness.

It does not suit you.

O chastiser of enemies (YOUR ENEMIES ARE YOUR EMOTIONAL WEAKNESS), get up and do not yield to this petty weakness of the heart.

The wise lament for neither the living nor the dead.

There was never a time that you, nor I, nor all THAT TODAY EXIST did not existed BEFORE. Nor shall we ever cease to exist in the future.

As the SOUL passes through the bodily transformations of childhood, youth, and old age, it similarly transmigrates from one body to another at the time of death. The wise are never deluded by this transition.

The interaction between the senses and the sense-objects produces the sensations of cold, heat, pleasure and pain. These feelings are temporary, always appearing and then disappearing. Thus, O descendant of Earth, you must learn to tolerate them.

O wise one, a sober man or woman who is equipoised in both pleasure and pain and remains undisturbed is certainly qualified for Peace.

Of that which is temporary there is no eternal existence. Of that which is eternal there is no destruction or change. Searchers of the truth have realized the constitutional position of both.

Know for certain that individual consciousness, which pervades the whole body, is imperishable. Nobody can destroy the indestructible individual unit of consciousness.

Embodied consciousness is eternal, imperishable and infinite. Only the material body is perishable. Therefore O wise, don’t get deluded.

One who considers the eternal unit of consciousness to be the slayer, and one who considers it to be capable of being slain are both in ignorance – for it neither slays nor is slain.

The individual unit of consciousness neither takes birth nor dies at any time. It has never been created nor will it ever be created. It is unborn, eternal, indestructible and timeless – it is not destroyed when the material body is destroyed.

O wise, considering that the individual unit of consciousness is eternal, unborn, imperishable and indestructible, how can a person kill anyone, and whom does he kill?

Weapons cannot cut the individual consciousness; it cannot be burned by fire; water cannot wet it and air cannot dry it.

Just as one removes old clothes and accepts new ones, similarly the embodied unit of consciousness gives up old bodies and accepts new bodies.

It is indestructible, incombustible, insoluble and cannot be withered. It is eternal, all-pervading, unchanging, immovable and primeval.

It is said that it is imperceptible, inconceivable and immutable. Thus, understanding the nature of individual embodied consciousness, it is inappropriate for wise to lament.

Even if you believe that the individual consciousness is eternally subject to birth and death, still you have no reason to lament, O mighty-armed one.

For one who is born, death is certain. For one who is dead, birth is certain. Therefore, you should not grieve over that which is inevitable.

O wise, all living beings are unmanifest before birth, manifest between birth and death, and again unmanifest after death. What then is the reason for lamentation?

Thus, you should not lament for anyone.

……………to be continued