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Istopadeśa - The Golden Discourse
incarnations must have provided us with exceptional status and glory. What material possessions have we been able to accumulate over such a long journey of our existence? Our present life, with a maximum life-span of just a few scores of years, has to come to an end in due course of time. None of our so-called “possessions' - body, friends, clothes, houses, riches – is going to accompany us to our next birth. The Acārya, therefore, has likened our present incarnation to a migratory bird spending the night on a tree.
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