This self-identification with the events in the book, lifts us above bodily and environmental consciousness. Identification with our own body, or possessions, or persons, can be dangerous and destroy our peace, happiness and progress. Beloved of God, aim at this self-identification, and you shall be immortal. Clouds appear and disappear, the sky remains for ever. Thoughts come and go, mind remains.
Feelings arise and subside, heart remains.
Love-affairs appear and disappear, love remains. Bodily being is born, and will no more be, life remains. Universes appear and disappear, God remains. If the life thinks it is the bodily being, then it is unhappy when bodily being is discarded. Therefore, be not the thoughts you think, the feelings that arise, the bodily being you have.