Is there a possibility of changing, or of improving our destiny? We in our material life become so rigid in our thinking that we cannot imagine something existing and at the same time improving and changing.
We are only capable of recognizing change as far as we can see it, and the moment we cannot see that change any more, we call it destruction or death. In other words, what we call destruction or death is only a change.
We cannot follow, we cannot see the link; it is not visible to us, we cannot fathom it, and therefore we say that it is the end. But is there anything that ends, that is destroyed, or anything that has ceased? Nothing. All these words are our own illusion, our own conception, a conception which is only true as long as we have not seen the continuity.
As soon as we understand this mystery, we no longer continue to have that conception. When we see life end suddenly, we call it death. We say a word, in this case "death", and once that word is spoken it is the end of the matter for us. But the word is never silent, it continues, if not in this then in another sphere.
So it is with thought. We have a thought and then we say, "I have forgotten." Yes, the mind has forgotten, but the thought is not dead. It is going on; it never ends. Is there anything that ends? Nothing.
Such words as "beginning" and "end" are our conceptions, and the further we go in studying life the higher the realization we get of those conceptions. It is this principle which is called unlearning. People are proud and satisfied with what they have learned, but the further one goes the more one finds that learning ends in unlearning.
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