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livered this, his last sermon, there was a look of rapture on his serene face.
He who knows how to die has indeed known how to live. Truly has the philosopher said: "Barring accidents, tell me how a man died and I shall tell you how he lived." Death is the sum-total of life.
The man who has the power to distinguish between the outer form and the essence of things, concentrates on how to make the leaving of his life beautiful. Thus after true vision, it is the turn of true knowledge. What is the soul? What is its future? How is it weighed down with karma? How can it be set free? What should one do to taste the divine nectar? These are the questions which the man in search of true knowledge asks himself. For as the poet has said:
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.
Yagnavalkya had two wives. When he decided to renounce the world and go into the wilderness, he started dividing his worldly possessions between the two wives. At this, one of them, Maitreyi, asked him: "Are you planning to give me only your worldly possessions? And if they are worth giving, then why do you show so much eagerness to re
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