Passage 8

In English

In the same manner good and bad, right and wrong, heaven and hell are all appearing to us as a result of our own vision. The mind of man alone is responsible both for his bondage and for his liberation. The difference between bondage and liberation exists only in our thought. There is no intrinsic or basic difference between these two. We will be able to appreciate the aspect of the divine only when we sacrifice the aspect of the . There is nothing that we can get by causing harm to the and doing (ritual worship) to the divine. We have to recognise that the living and visible and the invisible divine are the same, and we have to recognise the unity between these two aspects.