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The spiritual plane, which to ordinary mortals is like
night, full of darkness, is like day, full of clarity and night, to the wise ones; and the sense plane, where the ordinary minds are wide awake and active, there the wise men are as if asleep, knowing the futility of sense desire. These are the two poles of human existence represented by night and day. A truly wise man knows how to differentiate body, 'link_id=110')">
mind and senses from the self. Even when activity is going on, on the physical plane, he knows that the true self is not acting.
The steady-minded, by giving up all the fruits of action, obtains peace and born of resoluteness. The wobbly, being attached to fruits all the way through desire, is ever bound by action. The self-subjugated personified one, by relinquishing all actions through mental discrimination, rests happily in the city of nine gates, that’s the body, neither acting nor causing to act. No one creates neither the agency, that’s the sense of “I” nor actions for the world; nor union with the fruit of action. It is nature that leads to action.
“The lotus-leaf, though it grows in water, is not moistened by it.” When a greedy man sees a bag of gold and begins to think of its value, attachment for the thing grows in this heart. From attachment he feels intense longing to get possession of it and when anything or anybody interferes with the gratification of his desire, it results in anger. From anger delusion rises, confusion of understanding; then his memory fails him; he forgets his position and duty in life. When he is in this state, without discrimination of right and wrong, he does things to cause his own ruin.