This is the true, enduring, and eternal delight 1 .
O soul: Be certain, and acquire the knowledge of things through their "Is-ness" (Anniyya) and their "What-ness" (Mahiyya), and pay no heed to the knowledge of their qualities (Qualities) or quantities (Quantities). For the first two inquiries are simple and eternal, with no intermediary between the soul and them; whereas the latter two inquiries are composite, vanishing, temporal, and spatial.
Know, O soul, that the knowledge of the composite will not remain with you, stripped and carried within your essence, when you depart from the senses. Therefore, take the knowledge of the simple and leave the knowledge of the composite.
O soul: This terrestrial body (the Earth) is the heaviest of all things, because it settles beneath all things, and all other things float above it. For this reason, this body has become the utmost extreme in density, coarseness, confinement, rigidity, and the absence of light and life.
Then, following this body, comes the body of Water, which is subtler than Earth, more expansive, more noble, more luminous, and closer to life.