Passage 8

In English

Human life is a long garland. One end of the garland is birth and the other end is death. In between these ends are the flowers of clashes, agitations, doubts, lack of self-confidence, and other such qualities, which are threaded together. The effect of these flowers in between is predominant. People look at, and believe, only in these negative qualities of restiveness, lawlessness, and atrocities but do not recognise the underlying truth: without the thread, these flowers cannot be strung together. That thread is the - the law of . It is the very thread of . Woven about this thread are the flowers called obstacles, pleasures, sorrows, abuses, accusations, gains, and the like.