No Being, From The Highest Celestial Being To The Meanest Worm Contemplates With Equanimity

 - a cessation of its existence. Its inherent longing is to live on for ever. If existence by itself is painful, no one will long for its continuance.

- Nor will one long for It if it is a mere tasteless blank. It is longed for only because it is pleasurable. The longing is itself proof positive of Its blissful nature

- Because of its blissful nature, it is the object of our highest affection, rather, the highest object of our affection. If we sometimes have affection

- for anything else, say a wife, a child or a sweetmeat, we do not certainly want it to be always with us, for there are occasions when we feel its presence irksome

- No such contingency ever arises as regards ourselves. Our affection towards other things is only because they seem to contribute towards our happiness and,

- when they fail to do so, they cease to be the objects of our affection. The affection that we have for them is therefore only subsidiary to the affection 

- that we have for our own selves. This latter is not subsidiary to anything else but is inherent and absolute. "That affection which is in other things is for the

- sake of the Self, The affection had in the Self is unlike this, not for the sake of any other thing. Therefore the affection in the Self is the highest. By this the supreme blissful nature of the Self (is established)".