Passage 2

In English

This house of man should be regarded as something through which we should acquire knowledge and wisdom. Spiritual knowledge tells us that the Divine dwells in this body, although we regard the body itself as a destructible thing. We also call it a , a place where something is living. These notions arise on account of the fact that something permanent is inside the destructible human body. This morning, two ideas have been dealt with, namely, the destructibility and the indestructibility. We should know the connection that exists between those two concepts. All that you see in this world is destructible. In fact, all living beings that you see around you are destructible. The only indestructible thing is , or the soul that is contained in the living beings that you see. If you want to understand this with ease, then you have to accept and believe that every thing that undergoes a change, every thing that transforms from time to time is a destructible thing. The human body is associated with the stages of transformation. These six are birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction. Because the body is passing through all these phases and because the body is not a permanent one, we are attributing to it the quality of destruction or destructibility.