I just came across this quote from the Bhagvagad Gita :
"These things of matter, that bring us cold,
heat,
pleasure, pain, come and go again; they last not; therefore endure them
- - .
- - . Whom these perturb not . . . wise, he builds for immortality. For
the
unreal there is no being, nor any end of being for the real; the truth
as to
these two is seen by those who behold reality. . . . These temporal
bodies
are declared to belong to the eternal lord of the body, imperishable,
immeasurable; therefore, fight, O son of Bharta! He who sees him as
slayer, or who thinks of him as slain, both understand not. He slays
not
nor is slain. He is nevfer born nor dies, nor will he, having being,
evermore cease to be . . . . "
It reminds me of the final battle between Arkat and Nysalor : "He who
sees him as slayer, or who thinks of him as slain, both understand not.
"
Simon Hibbs