Those Who Disavow or Betray Their Roots

Those Who Disavow or Betray Their Roots

 

Autumn is the time of ‘seeking out the beginning and returning to the origin.’ Since it is the time of recovering one’s original self, those who betray their roots are doomed to perish. In very simple terms, even a blade of grass as fine as a needle must return its essence, or sap, to its roots. But if this does not occur and the essence is lost, then the roots wither and die. When the next spring arrives, no new life can arise from these roots. Similarly, if one betrays their ancestors—their roots—there is no way to survive.

 

Those who disavow or ‘change’ their fathers and ancestors or sever their roots will all die. ‘Changing fathers and ancestors,’ in plain terms, means that a woman has received the seed of conception from someone other than her husband, and hence a child of the Bak lineage becomes a Gim, or a Gim becomes a Choe. The bloodline has been changed, and so the father and the forefathers have also been changed. ‘Changing fathers and ancestors’ and ‘severing their roots’ mean changing the bloodline or the family seeds.

 

People who sever their roots or who betray their ancestors will inevitably perish in the coming times. Before the coming judgment is rendered by heaven and earth, such people will bring ruin upon themselves. Since they have severed their roots, the lineage of their ancestors stretching from time immemorial to their present selves cannot undergo the process of seeking out the beginning and returning to the roots, and hence they cannot bear fruit and they face annihilation.

 

Sangjenim’s truth is the truth of seeking out the beginning and returning to the roots. Sangjenim’s truth, in short, is the truth of roots!