In English
I must tell you the difference between these three aspects: the bodily aspect, the soul aspect and the divine aspect. A potter, in order that he may make his pots and pans, goes to a tank and takes the mud out of the tank, thereby creating a big deep pit. He would take the mud by creating the pit and taking clay out of the tank. He removes that mud and brings it in a cart to his house. In this way, because every day he is bringing mud from the tank and putting it in front of his house, there is a big mound or heap that has been formed. It means one has to go down the ditch or the depression in the tank. In front of the house, one has to climb up the heap or the mound. The mud from the pit in the tank is the same as the mud in the mound in front of the house. The potter takes some mud and goes on preparing every day some pots, some vessels, some pans, and so on. Gradually, as he makes the pots, the mud that filled the mound goes on slowly diminishing in volume. The potter is preparing pots and he is putting them in fire and hardening them and is selling them to various people. Before the pots have been made and sold, when he puts water on the mud that is in the mound that water gets into the mud and mixes with it. On the other hand, after making the pot, if you put water into the pot that is made out of the mud, that water is not absorbed. It remains as water inside the pot. Wherefrom has this change or this transformation come? The mud which was got from the tank or the mound or which went into the making of the pot is all the same. But it has taken the shape in one case of the pot, in another case of the mound and in another case of the pit. For the depression, for the mound and for the pot, the root cause is mud. But, in the course of time, this pot is going to break. In the course of time, the mound in front of the potter’s house will become smaller and smaller. But the mud remains all the time as mud.