More Wise Words from the Upanishads;
"Know the Atman [i.e., 'Self'] as Lord of a chariot; and the Body as the chariot itself".
[Katha Upanishad 3]
"Sages say the path is narrow and difficult to tread, narrow as the edge of a razor".
[ib.,]
"The pure eternal Spirit dwells in the castle of eleven gates of the body".
[ib., 5]
[the 'eleven gates' are of course the orifices of the human body]
"After death, the soul may go to the womb of a mother and thus obtain a new body. It even may go into trees or plants, according to its previous wisdom and work".
[ib.,]
"When the five sense and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path Supreme.
This calm steadiness of the sense is called 'yoga'".
[ib., 6]
"When all the ties that bind the heart are unloosened, then a mortal becomes immortal".
[ib.,]

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