The Beauty of Death as Part of Life

Now, can one live that way? - not be absorbed by something enormous, something majestic, like a toy with a child... child with a toy, rather. The child is absorbed in the toy and forgotten all his eager mischief. For the moment the toy has taken him over, till he breaks that toy. So he depends on that toy to make him forget. And we depend on some toy also - grown up people. The toy of a symbol, the toy of a word, the toy of a mantra. The word 'mantra' in Sanskrit, I believe, means meditate or think over not becoming and absolve all self-centred activity. That is the root meaning of that word - and what we have made of it.