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The Bhagavad Gita1478
known as Pleasure and Pain. They are thus relieved of confusion and illusion,
and they ascend to that plane which endureth forever. They pass on to that
place which is not lighted by either the sun or the moon, nor yet by fire,
but which is yet radiant beyond imagination. For this place is My Supreme
Abode, and there is no return therefrom.
“Yea, it is even a portion of myself, that, as an apparently separate soul
doth draw around itself the five senses and the mind, that it may obtain
embodiment in a mortal frame and that it may leave this frame again. And
the Ego carrieth this mind and these senses to whatever body he inhabits,
and again carrieth they away again when he leaves that body. Through the
instrumentality of the organs of seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting,
together with the mind, he experienceth the objects of sense.
“The deluded and ignorant do not see the soul when it leaves the body, or
remaineth in the body; nor yet when as swayed by the Gunas, or Qualities,
it experienceth the objects of sense. But the Wise Ones see and understand.
And, there are those who, by industrious meditation, acquire an inward sight
by which they may perceive this occurrence within themselves—but those
of untrained minds and ignorant understanding, though laboring hard, yet
fail to so perceive this within themselves.
“Know thou, Arjuna, that the light and radiance which proceedeth
from the sun and enlighteneth and illumineth the whole world—and that
radiance which proceedeth from the moon, and sheddeth soft beams over
the earth—and the fiery flame within the fire, which burneth fiercely upon
all upon which its light falleth—all this splendor is of Me.
“Know, also, O Prince, that I enter the earth and nourish all living things
by my life and vitality. I am the life-giving juice of the plants and growing
things. Likewise am I the Vital Force—the Fire of Life—which performeth
the functions of life within the body—I inspire the breathing, and—direct
the digestive, assimilative and eliminative processes. I am in the hearts and
minds of men, and from Me proceedeth memory and knowledge and also
the absence of both.