Passage 19

In English

Here we should understand what is. If is destructible, then why should the embodiment of , God, reappear to establish . If can disappear like all other destructible things, then it will not be at all. is not something which can be destroyed or weakened. If is not destructible, then where is the question of (establishment of )? We should interpret this as the establishment of the practice of and not the establishment of itself. What is declining is the practice of , but not . When we look in the traditional way, we see that in the earliest times, in the , was on all four legs, and we believe that later in the , was standing only on the three legs. Still later in the , it was only on two legs; and it is believed that in the it is standing only on one leg.