Hindu Medicine c7.193

c7.193

Underrating the peril which menaces his residence, King Jīva lends a willing ear to his other counsellor, Spiritual Wisdom, while Worldly Intelligence is away on an inspection tour of the defense line. Now, Spiritual Wisdom attends exclusively to the transcendental. He distracts the king’s attention from the city of the body and its perils, directing his view to the mystery of his own higher essence, the imperishable divine principle of life which transcends the “mortal coil”; this principle remains, forever and fundamentally, unconcerned with the welfare or destruction of the physical or psychic shells of the individual by which it is enveloped.