161- Where Does it Come From?
In a similar fashion that nothing ever perishes, our intellect and wisdom confirm that it did not exist from nothingness either. The essence (origin) of it has always existed. Just as it will be prone to spiritual promotions and changes in the future, it has also been the same way in the past. Therefore, it has always been. As far as you go back and exhaustively analyze the past, you are forced to realize and confess that a certain element has always existed.
How can you find a beginning for it?
You have no other option but to acknowledge that it has no beginning, and since it has no beginning, it has no end either. This notion is the truth, and anything other than this is not.