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Chapter 2
Something Noteworthy
The world is transitory, while the soul is eternal. Matter is kaleidoscopic, while the soul is stable. All things and persons etc., of the world are movable, while the soul is immovable and all worldly objects, are subject to birth and decay, while the soul is everlasting.
Lord Krsna says that men identify memselves with bodies and material things, and so they do not realize, that they are different from worldly things, but even then, the soul remains uniform and constant, all the time.
Appendix:-'Sarvagatalt' (All-pervading)—the self does not mere pervade a body but it is all-pervading—realization of this fact is salvation (]ibemtion from worldly bondage). As the body is seated in the world, we are not seated in the body. We (the self) have never had our union with the body, we have no union, won't have any union and it is not possible to have a union with the body. The body is quite afar from us. But because of desire, the sense of mine and identification with the body it appears as if we have union with the body.
In fact the Sariri doesn't need the body at all. The Sarni without the body, also remains in bliss.
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