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संगोदना
97
Has old age lost its sting? Is death gone from this world? Are diseases impotent ? Is youth everlasting? Will prosperity t permanent? Why do you then remain in illusory sleep?
98
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So long as mind is active, so long as senses can work and so long as the body is sound, try to realize the ideal of life. In old age you will not be able to do anything.
99
When Karma is ripé for painful consequences, even a king becomes a pauper with belly emaciated with hunger, even the strong decays with diseases and even the exalted is reduced to degradation.
100
The whole phenomenal world is a drama acted by Karma. It will vanish in a moment like a cloud in the autumn. So a wise man should not allow himself to be deluded by the phenomenal expansion apparently unsubstantial.
