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Musk remains inside the navel
Life itself is the best value of life. It has no other-greater value than life. He, whose eyes are fixed at the life-values, is the most dynamic person of the world. Real life is that wbich is beyond death.
Within all of us is such a life that never dies. That which dies, has no relation at all with life. Life does not die. The body dies, thoughts die, the heart dies, and they ought to die. It does not matter if anyone's body is dying, but when the life-values are assaulted, then the person dies from within. If the body is becoming ruined, if the thoughts are dying, the heart is getting the last rites of the body performed at some burning-ghat; that is the happiest incident of life.
Life is but a moving current. This current did exist even before birth, and this current continues even after birth. This current would continue even after death. A pond can shrink, but not the river. The current was available even before the birth, add the current is continuing even after death. Life is a current. Current is synonymous to life.
Those who desire to get immersed, get lost in their current, they either travel to Gangasagar or trek to Gangotri. To remain static in the mid-Ganga is not the dynamism of life. Sail your boat either towards Gangotri or towards Gangasagar. Going towards Gangotri is going towards the supreme space. Going towards Gangasagar is going towards vastness. Going towards Gangasagar is spreading one's own self, expanding it. Contrary to it, going towards Gangotri is going towards the spot where the
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