Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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with Dharma because we do not know when death overtakes us. How can we say when death overtakes us?
गृहीत इव केशेषु मत्युना धर्ममाचरेत् । Grihitha iva keseshu mruthyuna dharmamachareth (Thinking that Death is always holding us by the hair we should carry out Dharma)
We may postpone the task of carrying out our Dharma to our old age but what will happen if death overtakes us in our youth. Even if we live long and reach old age what amount of dharma can we do then ? What will be its value? Thinking of this point, a philosopher has said : नवेवयसि यः शान्तः
सशान्त इति मे मतिः। धातुषु क्षीयमाणेषु
शान्तिःकस्य न जायते ॥ Nave vayasi yah shanthah Sa shantha ithi me mathihi! Dhathushu kshiyamaneshu
Shanthih kasya na jayathe! (Only he who is peaceful and noble in his youth is really noble and peaceful. This is my opinion, because who will not be peaceful and noble in his old age when all his senses have grown weak and powerless?).