Through the previous chapters the reader has been given so much insight into the eternal facts or the divine world plan that he has witnessed that every living being is identical with an eternal, imperishable reality. Its imperishability is in turn based on its constitution as an eternal, inseparable interplay between three unshakable principles that differ from everything else in the world by not being identical with the result of creation. It follows that it can never have come into existence and must therefore have existed eternally. As these three principles constitute precisely the three conditions that must be fulfilled by a thing in order that it can appear as "living", every living being thus becomes identical with "an eternally living thing". This in turn means that the living being constitutes a reality that senses, experiences and manifests in an eternally continuing existence or experience of life. The terrestrial human being has no conscious realisation of this eternal existence.