For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t but because you can.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
At the time of God-realisation, nothing new is realised; on the contrary, the yogi feels that this state of God-consciousness which he is experiencing was already known to him.
