The bird called Jeeva (individual soul) resides within a nine-holed pot called body. Seeing the antics of the mind, death keeps laughing. It is a wonder how the bird has a body, how it came into the pot, and how it rises up and goes. All the sages, and human beings of all the continents, are constantly undergoing the sentence of carrying about with them the burden of the body. Now, out of all these beings, who are friends and who are enemies? When egoism dies out, all are friends. There are then no enemies. This lesson must be remembered by all.
-Divine Discourse, Prema Vahini.
