In English
In these manifestations that are partly true and partly untrue, there is one which is of a permanent nature and which we should recognise. There may be many amongst those who have assembled here who are used to going to cinemas. When you go there, the first thing you see is a screen. We cannot see or look at that blank screen for any length of time with pleasure. We will become impatient, and we will be looking back at the projector and at all other places from where the pictures have to come. After some time, some of the pictures come and they exhibit themselves on the screen. They are moving away from the screen. Some of those that have gone away from the screen are not just going away permanently. They are coming back again and again to the screen. Therefore, the coming and the going of these pictures in a repetitive manner is a sort of manifestation. When we say that the world is , you have to take the world not as the inanimate part of it but as the whole of it representing the conglomeration of all the living beings. They are all undergoing the cycle of being born and then dying and going out. At any instant of time, a large number of people are coming in by being born and going out by dying. Therefore, this coming in and going out into this world should be compared with the pictures coming in and going out on the screen. That is the , which we have to understand as the characteristic of the world.