How, who knows the unborn, unchanging, eternal and indestructible soul, could he kill or cause to be killed?
At the moment of death, the soul takes on a new body, the old one has become useless, just as one discards worn clothes to put on new ones.
No weapon can crack the soul, nor the fire burn it; the water cannot wet it, nor the wind dry it out.
The soul is indivisible and insoluble; fire does not reach it, it cannot be dried up. It is immortal and eternal, omnipresent, unalterable and fixed.
The soul is said to be invisible, inconceivable and unchanging. Knowing this, you should not lament over the body.
And even if you believe the endless soul taken over by birth and death, you have no reason to grieve.
Death is certain for whom is born, and certain for whom dies. Since you must do your duty, you should not feel sorry for yourself.
All created things are, originally, not manifested. They manifest themselves in their transitory state, and once dissolved, find themselves unmanifested. What is the point of being saddened?
Some people see the soul, and it’s an amazing wonder to them. So do others talk about it and others hear about it. There are, however, some who, even after hearing of it, cannot conceive of it.
He who sits in the body is eternal, he cannot be killed. So you do not have to cry for anyone”.
It is the desire to dominate material nature that plunges the incarnate being into it.
It is only by his desire to dominate the material nature that the spiritual being is immersed in it. Such desire does not exist in the spiritual world, for the latter is pure.
In the universe of dense matter, everyone struggles hard to constantly find new «prey» of pleasure for his body. Let us know that the body is actually the product of the senses, which are the instruments made available to the incarnate soul for the satisfaction of its desires. The whole, body and «sense-instruments», is offered to the soul incarnated by the material nature according to its desires and the acts it committed in its previous life. Thus it will be blessed or damned by the material nature, in various conditions or «habitats» corresponding to the various bodies in which it was incarnated, according to its desires and its acts. It is therefore responsible for the joys and sorrows that fall to it, but once placed in a particular material body, it falls under the yoke of material nature, for the body made of dense matter acts according to the laws proper to matter, to which the soul in itself has no power to change anything. If they get an animal body, for example, then they have to act as such. That’s the law of nature.