River flows. It cannot stay static. If it does, it turns into a pond, or at the most a lake bound by its boundaries.
River must continue to flow until it merges into the ocean. So, am I - cannot stay static, must go on, and on, until my soul finally dissolves into the Supreme Soul, and loses its identity altogether, much the same as it happens with the river as it merges into the ocean.
River gives, it does not take. If it does gather anything on course of its journey towards the ocean, it gathers and gives, it gathers and gives away. It doesn't accumulate for itself. It has no use for it all, for its own, so it keeps unburdening itself on its way towards its journey to the ocean. Much the same is the case with me. I have no use for myself to accumulate anything that I would want to say my own. On the last leg of my journey I cannot afford to accumulate any, or else I have to return again to take care of them.

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