The Fearless Man
Contacts of the senses with their objects bring cold and
heatm pleasure and pain; they come and go and are transient. Endure them.
The wise man who si not distrubed or agitated by these, who is unmoved by pleasure and pain, he alone is fitted for immortality.
Any being who is not subject to the impressions of senses will never experience fear. It is these impressions which are responsible for the feelings of happiness and misery. Someone has said that the muscles of a man who is angry become thirteen times as tense as when he is normal , and of a man who is laughing nine times as tense. That is, one spends more energy when one is angry and one whose energy thus wasted cannot attain to immortality. The cultivation of this state requires practice. We can even say of a person who has attained to it that he is God.
We feel afraid only so long as we take the rope to be a serpent. Like wise, if we know the natural stages of growth of the body, we shall not grieve over death.
heatm pleasure and pain; they come and go and are transient. Endure them.The wise man who si not distrubed or agitated by these, who is unmoved by pleasure and pain, he alone is fitted for immortality.
Any being who is not subject to the impressions of senses will never experience fear. It is these impressions which are responsible for the feelings of happiness and misery. Someone has said that the muscles of a man who is angry become thirteen times as tense as when he is normal , and of a man who is laughing nine times as tense. That is, one spends more energy when one is angry and one whose energy thus wasted cannot attain to immortality. The cultivation of this state requires practice. We can even say of a person who has attained to it that he is God.
We feel afraid only so long as we take the rope to be a serpent. Like wise, if we know the natural stages of growth of the body, we shall not grieve over death.
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