In English
I shall give you a small example from our daily life. We have got a store room in which we stock all our rice. We have already the old stock of rice in the store. What we have stored in the room is called . When we want to cook, we remove some rice from the store room and begin to cook it. What we bring from the store room for cooking today is called . What we cook now and what we eat today will pass out of our body tomorrow. Sometimes what we eat may come out in the shape of a belch. Therefore we cannot escape from , we must experience it in this life. In the store room, there is only rice. When we bring it we will be able to convert it into many preparations. In this way, we can make the rice into food, we can make it in the form of ; we can cook it in the shape of ; we can make from it and also , and so on, all of which are names for different preparations from rice. We never change the base, which is always rice. You have to start any preparation with rice only. Even though there is , if you try to behave in a sathwik way, in a pious and good way, you will be able to change even . You may say that in the rice store, there are big stones. They are the results of our bad actions. They are in the store mixed with rice. Before we cook, do we not try to remove the stones from the rice? So it is quite necessary that when we experience , we can overcome the bad effects to some extent, or a great extent, and make them clean, just as we make the rice clean.