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ISAVASYA UPANISHAD
MANTRA TWO
kurvanneveha karmani jijivisecchatam samah evam tvayi nanyatheto'sti na karma lipyate nare ||2||
If a man wishes to live a full life on this world, he should live doing his duties. There is no other way for man than to do the work as is given to him.
Though a man may wish to live a hundred years, performing works, it will be thus with him; but not in any other way: work will thus not cling to a man (Trans. Max Muller)
By performing karma in this world (as enjoined by the scriptures) should one yearn to live a hundred years. Thus action does not bind thee, the doer. There is no other way than this. (Panoli)
Obeying the commandments of God, and living a life in consonance with it, is the only way to live a long life on this earth. Going against the rules of the cosmos will only hurt those who violate it. But living in consonance with the laws, one can enjoy it and live a fulfilled life.
Deu 4:25-26 "When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. Deu 11:8-9 "You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess, and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
MANTRA THREE
asurya nama te loka andhena tamasa'vrtah tamste pretyabhigacchanti ye ke catmahano janah || 3 ||
People who harm the soul will go into the dark worlds which is covered in blind darkness after death.
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