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Chapter 8
Appendix:—There are two divisions—one division-is of the kaleidoscopic world, the other division is of the unchanging divine entity. The multitude of beings, which is subject to birth and death from time immemorial, is born and merges again and again. The being, during the day and night of Brahma, is born and dies again and again, It means that the unreal, which is born and merges is the world and that (the real), which remains the same (which was at the time of creation) is the self viz., the divine entity which is a fragment of God. Brahmaji's numberless nights and days may pass, but the self ever remains the same.
In the divine entity viz., in the self there is power to be attached to someone or something or to remain detached. By misusing the power viz., by being attached to matter, he is born and he dies—'katanarit gunasango'sya sadasadyonijanmasu' (Gila 13/21). If he does not misuse this power, he cannot pave the way to birth and death. Therefore the main valour or objective of a man is not to be attached to matter but it is to be established in the self or take refuge in God, Whose fragment he (the self) is. In matter viz., in space, time, thing, person, action, state, circumstance, a change occurs, while in the self a change never occurs—this is every man's experience. But in spite of this experience a man remains bound by matter because of his attachment to pleasure and so-he does not realize the self but remains forgetful of the self just like beasts and birds.
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