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What is Life?
routine without any milestone or destination.
If you count the number of people with whom you are involved and the number of activities you are connected to, it will not exceed five to seven thousand.
Let's go a little further. How much do you earn per month? Suppose, you earn Rs. 2 lakhs per month, will your annual income be Rs. 20-25 lakhs? Then, accordingly your income for 10 years will be Rs. 2.5 crores. For how many years will you be able to earn? Maybe 40-50 years. In those years, you may earn Rs 25-50crores.
Curry item in the market has a price tag. A shirt may be priced for Rs1500. Similarly, what is the worth of your life? Rs.25 or 50 crores?
Just as the worldly people have a routine life, ascetics too have a routine. Wake up, go for alms, study the holy scriptures, give or listen to discourses, keep moving to different places, have religious discussions,perform pratikraman, give time to devotees, etc...
Think it over. Go into its depth....Should this routine be our actual life? Should in this way we utilize our valuable human birth? Are we going to spend our life in this routine? Will we do anything else besides the routine?
This year we have come for chaturmas (four and a
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