Passage 3

In English

Further, the indestructible, Divine strength which has come into this destructible body has been called man’s soul or the human spirit. Because the body contains this indestructible Divine spirit, the live body has also been called “man.” In the very word , which stands for man, we are able to see the Divinity that is present in man. , the word thatstands for man, has got three syllables. The first one ‘Ma’ stands for or ignorance, absence of knowledge. The second one ‘’ stands for the desire that ignorance and absence of knowledge should disappear. The third one ‘’ conveys the injunction that one should conduct oneself in a manner so as to remove ignorance. Our ignorance is equivalent to or synonymous with death. Thus there is no meaning in our attributing ignorance to man. Today, we do this forgetting the immortal soul in man and attaching importance to what is temporary and transient around us and not giving the necessary attention to what is Divine in us. This is bringing some kind of shame and disrepute on human qualities themselves. That which proclaims the natural form of man, that which makes evident to others the true nature of man, is called .