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It is through this knowledge that the saints and sages are in a perpetual state of spiritual intoxication. Old age comes to them, but they do not feel it. When the hour of death draws nigh, they say: "Well, let's go to our new home.” When a man experiences this, his life is suffused with sweetness and light and as he lives, he spreads sweetness and light around him. It is then that his life becomes a source of inspiration to others. Of what use is it for a man to leave behind him a legacy of material wealth if it is unaccompanied by a spiritual legacy? All it means is that he could not take his money with him and so he was forced to leave it behind. It is such men who scribble their names with a pencil on the walls of the hotel room where they might pass a night. That is all that they have to offer to posterity-a name scribbled in black! It is not these names scribbled on the walls of hotel rooms that we remember in our morning prayers, but the names of those whose lives were sublime and inspiring.
Those whose lives are flooded by the light of perfect knowledge have understood the true significance of life as well as death and therefore they are unafraid. Life existed before this birth and will continue to do so after death. It is here on this shore
