In plain words
Or has it come from my eyes?” We must make this test. This itself is spiritual research; this itself is spiritual inquiry. Through this research and inquiry we must make the right effort to purify the heart.
Birth and death are natural
Once, the Buddha saw Ānanda, the son of Gautama, his father's younger brother. The Buddha brought on his own state, the state of nirvāṇa. Recognising that state, this Ānanda shed tears. The Buddha is leaving the body. “What will become of us now? What way is left for us now?” he kept grieving. The Buddha called Ānanda to him: “Ānanda! This is not a time for you to grieve. I am very close to nirvāṇa. You too, come close to this nirvāṇa. In the world, seeing those who have died, those who live suffer many sorrows. But who are the dead? Even those who grieve today may die by tomorrow. When there is birth, then there is death too.
The Paramātma alone is eternal
The Eternal One, who has neither death nor birth, without beginning, middle or end, the beginningless One, He is not born, does not die, is not slain; in the form of the Ātma He shines everywhere.
So, except for God, being born and dying are both natural to ordinary human beings. Neither of the two can be escaped. So why are you weeping? You too, try to attain this state.” God alone is the foundation of everything. That God is everywhere.
With hands and feet everywhere, with eyes, heads and faces everywhere, with ears everywhere in the world, It stands enveloping all.