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Life Momentary Or Eternal
Every individual uses his eyes to see, ears to listen, and mouth to talk. Whatever he looks, listens or speaks, for whomsoever he does this, with whatever intentions he does it, is it momentary or eternal? Is it for a moment or for a long time? Are your house, family, relatives, momentary or eternal?
All these things are only limited to this one life, including everything in this world, every individual, even the surrounding environment. Even what you see and what you hear, everything is momentary.
Are we aware that our material belongings (e.g. house, car, etc), our spouse as well as everything and everyone else, including the environment that we interact with is momentary not eternal. Clearly, a majority of our daily activities are for a momentary cause, and yet, we go about acquiring more because of our uncontrollable attachment.
We must understand that our worldly affairs are momentary and the soul alone is eternal.
When this religious place was built, the people who came in then are not seen there any more and the people who are seen now will also not be seen some time later. So no one is eternal.
When this body itself is momentary, things are momentary, environment is momentary. When this whole
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