Passage 8

In English

The lamp is also the symbol of the

Egoism is of earth, earthy; not of heaven, heavenly. So is the son of Earth. And, he is called , means, man, who knows his (mind), who practises (discrimination of reflection on what he has heard and what he has been taught). But which means hell, is the name appropriate to one who believes he is the body and toils to cater to its needs and its clamour. When man grows in physical strength, economic power, mental alacrity, intellectual scholarship and political authority and does not grow in spiritual riches, he becomes a danger to society and a calamity to himself. He is a to his neighbours and his kin. He sees only the many, not the One; he is drawn by the scintillating manifold into the downward path of perdition.