The world is the wheel of God, turning round And round with all living creatures upon its rim. The world is the river of God, Flowing from him and flowing back to him. On this ever-revolving wheel of being The individual self goes round and round Through life after life, believing itself To be a separate creature, until It sees its identity with the Lord of Love And attains immortality in the indivisible whole. [ Shvetashvatara I.4–6 ] Thus Self-realization is immortality in an entirely new sense: not “everlasting life” but beyond death and life alike.
