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"I will find it."
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She left in a hurry, not pausing to think. She went from house to house and said, "Please give me seven mung beans." Generally people in India keep mung beans in their house and they are ready to part with them. Then she would ask, "Has anybody died in your house?" They would reply, "What a question! My father died". Another said, "my grandgather died." "Another would say, "my sister died and she was only a baby." It happened in each house until she got tired. She was so confused, attachment did not allow her to think properly. She was exhausted because everywhere she heard the same story.
Finally, she came back and said, "Sir, there is not a single house where death has not occurred." Buddha said, "Now think of life and death. It is a change"
It is leaving one body and going into another. It is changing clothes. When you wear clothes for a few days, they become dirty. They become full of odor. Then it is time to change.
"Young and old is a time concept. Life is eternal, it is evolving. In eternity every life is a process of completion. And when that mission is completed, the person leaves the body as you leave the waking state and go to sleep. You leave the sleep and go to dream, you go from dream to sleep, from sleep to waking. It is all nothing but change.
The lady was able to overcome her fear and sorrow when she realized that nothing in the world lasts,
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