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in the service of others. "Wealth, and even life itself, the sage always holds ready for the service of others. In this world, there being one thing certain, namely, death, it is far better that this body dies in a good cause than in a bad one." We may drag our life on for fifty years or a hundred-but after that, what is it that happens? Everything that is the result of combination must get dissolved and die and there must and will come a time for the body to be decomposed. Jesus and Buddha and Mahammad are all dead-all the great prophets and teachers of the world are dead. "In this evanescent world where everything is falling to pieces, we have to make the highest use of what time we have," says the bhakta, "and really the highest use of life is to hold it at the service of all beings." It is the horrible body-idea, just this one delusion, that we are wholly the body we own, and that we must by all possible means try our very best
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