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Life Invaluable Or Ordinary?
not even realize when this opportunity will cease to exist.
Parmatma has referred to a very nice incident in the 25th addhyayan from the Uttaradhyan sootra.
Once a Brahmin goes to the river bank to have a bath and he sees a strange scene. A frog catches an insect and before he gobbles it, the frog is caught by a snake, but before the snake can swallow the frog, the snake is captured by an eagle...but before the eagle can eat the snake, a hunter aims at it and kills the eagle with his arrow...Every one - the eagle, the snake, the frog, and the insect are all seeing their end their death in front of them. • !!! Every one of them is on their death bed but still nobody wants to leave the last morsel of food. This is the reality of our life too.
Many decades of our life have passed.... Do we see whose prey we are or do we only look at the morsel in our hand? What do we see ourselves as? As a prey or predator? We fail to realize that time will eraze us..swallow us and then we will be left with nothing! Nobody realizes that he is a prey of 'time'. Do we have any guarantee that we will be alive after five minutes?" One fails to understand that he would soon become past...
I am alive at present but when I shall become past I don't know!
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