Passage 1

In English

When one gives up what has to be renounced, When one knows what needs to be known, When one reaches what should be one's goal, How can the Bliss that is got therefrom be described? What have to be given up are these worldly thoughts; What has to be known is the truth, about life; What has to be attained is the Brahmic Consciousness; What greater bliss can there be than this? EMBODIMENTS of love! Belittling human life as trivial and transient, people are forgetting the effulgent Divine that is eternal. Man is no ordinary being. The term applied to man, means (the Spirit). Man is the embodiment of triple entities. He has one form in the waking state, another in the dream state and a third in the deep sleep state. Although the waking state is described in many ways, the presiding deity of this is called . Tiffs is made up of twenty-five constituents - the five basic elements, the five (life-breaths), the five sense organs, the five (sheaths), the mind, the intellect, the Will and (Ego) and the (Indwelling Spirit). Together, these twenty-five represent the Lord of the waking state. This , making use of the sense organs in the waking stare, experiences the cosmos as pervaded by the Divine.