Pleasure and pain relate only to the body. The mountains, by their indifference to cold or heat, are teaching man that he should bear joy or grief with an equal mind and strive to realise God. By attachment to the body and developing self-conceit, man forgets the lessons of Nature and wallows in selfishness. Although Nature has been teaching these lessons from the beginning of time, man has not learnt to give up the ideas of "my people" and "others" and to develop the sense of oneness and equality of mankind and realise his divinity. Nature thus teaches man in many ways to give up ideas of "I" and "mine" and look upon God as the supreme preceptor. The departed convey the message of the impermanence of life and its pleasures. They teach man the lesson of contentment and indifference to the future. The mountains, by bearing heat and cold, wind and rain alike, teach man not to care too much for the body The birds take no thought for the morrow and are content to live on what they can get. They teach man this lesson of equal mindedness. EMBODIMENTS of Divine Love! The trees provide cool shade and sweet fruit equally to all, whether they have fostered them or harmed them.
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