20th June

171.   When the Ageless exists,

          What do you bother with sensual pleasures,

          Which are bound up with old age and death

          All modes of birth everywhere

          Are inseparable from sickness and death.

          But this is ageless and immortal;

          This is the ageless immortal state,

          Without grieving or enmity,

          Without obstruction, without stumbling,

          Without fear and without burning.

          This immortal state

          Has been attained by many,

          And can be attained even today

          By those who apply themselves,

          But not by those who do not strive.

Thi.511-13* (Thig 16.1)