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As a man casts off old clothes and puts on new and enjoys the feeling of newness and freshness so should a man feel in discarding the old, worn out body, and putting on the new The old body is this entangled hfe in the material-world Sansara and a new body is a final ever release from its hold
A sincere traveller on the life's path should rejoice in attaining Moksha Salvation since his round of life and birth comes to an end But man today is distressed by death He feels restless, and naturally 50 He does not attain anything good, he has not been virtuous, done works of charity or observed chastaty or carried out penance or felt compassion for the suffering He knows his life has been wasted and there is a sorry end to it all There will be no new garment to put on but even this thread-bare one will be taken away and he will have to wander helplessly in the purgatorial regions
He has reason to dread the hour of death
Throne, principality, power, do not bring happiness of one is not in possession of spiritual riches One may pretend to look happy but hell-fires of remorse and the biting, restless soul keep burning all the while, the ravenous worries hover over his head like vul. tures, the worms of conscience corrode his heart Know then, please, that your imagined happiness 16 but born of the unreal
