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breaths, too, upon which life depends, is diminishing like lampoil. The sun of life is going to set.But the man is so foolish that he does not realise all these things. O my erring Soul I take the right way to return home or the darkness of ignorance will overtake you. You will be forsaken by your friends and will then wander in the woods disappointed and mourn. Open your eyes, leave your lethargy and be conscious ! It is difficult and quite difficult to get full satisfaction in this world. You have completed not one or two but full sixteen years of this life, still you have not been able to reap full satisfaction as yet. You have lived several lives before but were always anxious for getting satisfaction. The sea of satisfaction has always been a thing far remote for you. Your one hearfelt desire has always been to get more and more. O my Soul, You have now reached the coast of the Sea of happiness in the form of human life. It is up to you now to break loose of all bonds, to take courage, and resolutely to dive deep into this sea of happiness, in order to bring out the invaluable gem of Spiritual Knowledge. My Soul, if you do not wake up even now, if you return form the seacoast, and if you throw away the jewel that has fallen into your hands you shall have to repent and weep in the end. Such opportunities are not of common occurrence. If you lose them once, you lose them for ever. The grinding-machine of time is always in action. It may grind you at ary time. You think yourself to be very great but time's consideration is some thing else.He is containing the days of your life. His consideration is right. Why then do you not try to put an end to time who wants to put an end to your life ? Be such as might not be frightened by Death. Attain that position where Death
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