Passage 25

In English

Finding this kind of weakness in , Lord said, “Get up, O, ! Fate is inexorable! Justice wins, righteousness prevails, selfishness perishes. This is an eternal rule; is it not? The Karmic effect is so strong that you will find even a father of hundred children will have a wretched death, and none of the sons remains to attend to his last rites. “The cause for your sorrow is ignorance. Only when you remove ignorance, your sorrow mitigates.” When the light of knowledge dawns, the darkness of ignorance vanishes automatically. But, there is no use of fighting darkness incessantly forgetting this light. This knowledge comes out of inner vision. Insight rather than external sight is what is important. You say, ‘I am man.’ What is this ‘I’ in this body? Is it intellect or mind or that can be called as ‘I’? You say ‘It is my body’. This really means that you are different from the body. Similarly, when you say, ‘this is my mind’, the mind is different from your self, and so on. Therefore, you are, in fact, not the body, not the mind, not the intellect, etc. It is this very ‘I’ that is your reality. You will arrive at this conclusion only when you apply the reasoning or technique of negation, saying ‘not this, not this’.