Passage 1

In English

Life in the world is impermanent; Impermanent are youth and wealth; Wife and children are not permanent; Only Righteousness and renown are enduring. EMBODIMENTS of Love! In this phenomenal world, life is like a water bubble. No one can tell when, where and how this bubble will burst. One's youth and wealth are transient stages in one's life, coming and going. No one can predict when they will come and when they will pass away. Is there any reason for feeling proud about one's youth, which is purely transitory? It is not the unchanging reality. Wife and children are not permanent. They are like passing clouds. They are like lightning flashes, bright one moment and disappearing the next. None of these is of a lasting nature. "." The righteous acts performed by one and the reputation earned by one, these two alone endure for ever, as long as the sun and moon last. Embodiments of Love! The primary goal of a human being is to realise his inherent divinity and redeem his life by that realisation. Man's heart, which should be an ocean of milk, has been polluted so much by evil today that it has become an ocean of brine. (the ocean of milk) is regarded as the bed on which the Lord reclines. It is pure and white like milk. But by polluting his heart man is a prey to all kinds of worries. The ocean of milk has no room for whales and crocodiles. But the main evils of attachment and hatred, infesting the heart like whales and crocodiles, have turned it into an ocean of salt.