Passage 11

In English

The material science is being extolled as a means for all comforts or joys. In fact, science is bringing more sorrow than happiness to the world. Every deed and everything is prone to reaction, reflection and resound. Physical sciences are confined to knowing about the nature of things and about making use of those properties. But, they are not concerned about the cause behind all existence, or about the creator of all this material world. This knowledge is possible only through spiritual education. The principle is attributeless, passionless, primordial, baseless, eternal, truth, all powerful, ‘knowledge’, unattached and pristine. When these aspects are grasped, then the things of material world look trivial; and mastery over worldly things comes along with this, unasked. But, today people are ignoring the very base and are harping on the objective world, thinking it as real. We see so many buildings and other things in a dream. But, when we wake up all these things of dream are vanishing. All that we see during day time appear to be true until we go to sleep. In sleep all these things disappear, until we wake up again. The has described 25 aspects pertaining to the body that is perceptible – five senses of action, five senses of perception, five sheaths and five faculties () and the 5 basic elements. Also the body is a product of various combinations of five basic elements, namely earth, water, fire, air and ether (sky). Each of these five combinations, in turn is a mixture of five sub-combinations. Therefore, again there are 25 aspects, basing on natural elements. Therefore, any thing that is perceptible to man is a product of these physical elements; and is subjected to change, decay and destruction.