Pujya Ramsukhdasji Maharaj

[Guest guest]

Caution !

 

All resources for the dying are ready. The coffin is ready, no new

one has to be prepared. The pall bearers are also ready. No new ones

need to be born. The cremation ground is also ready, no new place

needs to be acquired. The firewood for the cremation is also ready,

no new trees need to be planted. The delay is only in the stopping of

the breath. The moment this breath stops, all these materials will

come together and be mobilized. Then what room is there for complacency ?

 

Caution! Become Alert ! This world is not for you to stay

permanently. This place is only for those you are dying and only for

those in the process of dying. Then how have you spreading your legs

out and smuggly occupying this space, being self-satisfied ?

 

Think ! Will these days always remain the same forever ?

 

You are building a house here, decorating it here, hoarding things here,

but you yourself are running towards death ! Wherever you are going,

first make that ultimate destination a good place !

 

Even a train that is scheduled to depart at a fixed time, is attentive

to timing, then what to speak of this train symbolizing death which

does not have a fixed departure time, for that there should be

alertness and cautiousness at all times.

 

" We will do " - this is not a certainty, but " we will die " - that is

an absolute certainty.

 

You do not see God, but God is seeing and watching you, all the time.

 

It is a rule that the incoming one, is the outgoing one.

 

In the fire of death, everything is burning away at all times. Then

who should we trust? Who should we desire?

 

Think careful, who is our own? If today death arrives, then will

anybody be able to help us ?

 

On birthdays we have a celebration, saying we are now these many years

old ! In reality, we are not that many years older, rather, we have

died that many years, in other words, from our total number of years,

that many years have come off, and death has come closer.

 

When a boy is born, whether he will grow into an adult or not, whether

he will get educated or not, whether he will get married or not,

whether he will have a family or not, whether he will have wealth or

not, in all these matters there is doubt; but whether he will die or

not, in this there is no doubt.