In English
Man is doomed when evanescent overcomes him
The Beauty of was the Beauty of Inner Peace, the Splendour that fills one when he is conscious of living in (righteousness). teaches also the need to give up the false identification with the body. When saw wailing over the corpse of , he gives her lessons on the evanescence of the body and the foolishness of identifying a person with that vehicle he uses for the purpose of his journey to Divinity. When desire for the evanescent overcomes man, he Is doomed; he becomes distant from the goal. Consider . She renounced everything that she thought would give her comfort in the palaces of her father and father-in-law and preferred to follow into the forest. So, she secured the Proximity and Presence of the Lord. But, alas, when she saw the false form of the Golden Deer, she yearned for it, and sent both and after it, so that she might fondle it and feed it and have it as a pet. What was the result of this fatal desire? She was forced to live far away from the Lord and to pine for Him in great anguish. When Is installed in the heart, everything will be added unto you - fame, fortune, freedom, fullness. was a mere monkey leader until he met ; he was a minister in the court of his master; but, when gave him the commission to seek and sent him, that is to say, when was Installed in his heart as guide and guardian, became immortal, as the Ideal Devotee. The has a deep undercurrent of significant meaning. means, he who rides in a chariot of ten, that is to say MAN. He is tied up with three (qualities), or three wives, as in the . He has four sons, the - () (), (), and (). These four aims of man have to be systematically realised, always with the last one, , clearly before the eye. represents the (Intellect) and is Truth. is the Mind, and it is the repository, if controlled and trained, of courage. , the master of is Discrimination. With these to help him seeks Truth and succeeds. That is the lesson of the Epic to everyman.