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Chapter Conclusion
If you ask a person coming to a city like Mumbai 'from where he came and where he wants to go', and if he replies that he does not know, how would you brand him? Would you not term him senseless? But are we not in the same boat? All of us live in hurry and hustle. How many of us know from where and why we came, what is the purpose of our life and why do we remain so busy? Our position happens to be similar to that of a lost traveler.
The enlightened persons therefore point out that we think a lot about marriage, building of house etc. but we never think about the purpose of life. We do not like to think about leaving the world; we consider it inauspicious to think or talk about death. We simply overlook the fact that it is going to happen and we shall have to leave. Is it possible to postpone the death? Can we avoid it? Since it is going to occur one day, why not get prepared to face it?
When a hunter pursues a rabbit, it runs away; but when it gets exhausted, it stops while keeping its eyes stuck to the ground. Since it is now unable to see, it may fancy that no one, inclusive of the hunter, is able to see. Hunter's eyes are, however, open and he kills it. The 'hunter of death has been similarly pursuing us, but we refuse to notice it. Quite a few of our relatives and friends died and we cremated them; still we try to persuade ourselves that we would escape
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