Passage 27

In English

As long as life is present, we are to some extent enjoying and appreciating the bodily relationship of either a mother or a father or a brother or a sister or a wife and so on. But once life has fled, then we will realise that all the relationship that we were enjoying was only a bodily relationship and has no value. That anything that has been permanent is true only in respect of the Divine soul that is contained in the body, and not the body itself, becomes very clear. Therefore, the one who is a true relation to us, the one who is a true friend to us, the one who is a true guide to us, can only be God and none others. All other relationships are like passing clouds, which come and go. The permanent and eternal truth of God should be your ultimate aim.