Thus Spake Sri Rama

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Life and Inevitable End

 

Like drops of water hanging from the tip of a leaf, the life of a man

leaves this dirty body all of a sudden.

 

Life is the cause of sorrow to those who have not developed the power

of discrimination and whose heart is oppressed owing to contact with

the serpent of sense objects.

 

On the contrary, life means happiness to those who have found peace in

the knowledge of Reality.

 

Our life is evanescent like the clouds of autumn; it is like the lamp

of which the oil has been exhausted; it is like the ripple on a sheet

of water.

 

Despite this hollowness of life, fools desire longevity. But that

brings only sorrow in its train.

 

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