Passage 1

In English

ONE should yearn not for the prolongation of life but for the purification of life. A few moments as , the Celestial Swan, are far more precious than many years as the crow. In order to sublimate the low yearnings of man, to lead him along the path of holiness and to hold before him the glorious destiny of his oneness with the Cosmic Consciousness, the identity of the (individual) and the (Universal), the (ancient revealed scriptures) have laid down many lessons, in profound axioms summarising realisable Truths. Each Veda has one central declaration or or around which it revolves. is the Holy Declaration of the . means constant integrated awareness. This is present and active, in all things, at all places, all the time. It energises the physical, mental and spiritual realms, the lower, middle and higher regions and the sub-human, human, and super-human beings. The three periods of Time - the nether, spatial and heavenly worlds, and the three modes of being - goodness, passion and inertia (, and ) - are all pervaded and permeated by (total awareness) or (pure consciousness).