pudgal

The mud of this body-complex (pudgal - that which charges and disharges) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper and deeper he sinks into it.

Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly __atter_ of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When __nowledge of the Self_ is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) __goism_ and __y-ness_ will remain.

The ego dies and the ego lives, but people say that __ died_. That which takes birth and dies is the ego, and the Soul is in the same place (is always intact). Even Pudgal (the atoms that were charged; which are being discharged in the form of mind, body, speech) is in the same place. The issue is only of the ego in the middle.

It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.

These are all __hosts_. If you are afraid, the ghosts will possess you. If there is inner fear of __hat if they hang me?_; then one should say, __es, that is correct_. The Soul can never be hung; nothing [worldly] can touch the Soul. All the doings are that of the pudgal (matter; non-Self). The noose for hanging is pudgal and the one doing hanging (the hangman), is also pudgal. The Soul has never been hung. This [fact] does not fit one__ vision and that is why he has fear. But once his vision becomes like the Gnani__ [the enlightened one], then it__ over! For that, one has to stay in touch with the Gnani [the enlightened one].