Passage 21

In English

God is one who had no beginning and will have no end. Thus, if the newcomer wants to know what the one without an end and without a beginning is, you have to go and ask the to tell you the method of knowing. If you go to a new place, you generally meet with people called guides, whose duty is to tell you all about that new place. If you have gone there for the first time, you are a new person to that place. That place has been there all the time. The one who tells you about the place which has been there for all time, that guide will be referred to as the or the ancient. How long will this new man who has gone there remain new? So long as the ancient person who is there, who is telling the newcomer all the things needed and so long as you do not know them, you remain a new man. But when you have learnt through the guide who has been there for a long time, then you become experienced and you can understand the nature of or this eternity. This understanding has also been called the understanding of , the eternal. He, Himself, becomes the . So if you want to understand the full significance of this , or the eternal truth, the way to do it is to join these , those who have been there for some time, like the ; and through them and with their help you understand the nature of this Divine and you yourself join the Divine by that process.