Book Title: Myself to My Soul Part 01
Author(s): Namramuni
Publisher: Parasdham Mumbai

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________________ What is Life ? half months of monsoon season)... last year another group of monks had come... The year before another had come... many different monks have come.. You went to listen to their discourses... but what is the outcome???? Why have we been born? To do the same things over and over again? Or is there something else to be done or something you can do differently? One keeps changing clothes but does not break away from the habit of having to wear clothes. One takes birth and dies, and takes another birth and dies again, but for what purpose? It is said that one keeps changing his clothes, but, his habit of wearing clothes does not change, the habit remains the same. Similarly, the house remains as it is, but people living in the house keep changing --someone is born, another passes away and life just goes on .. The cycle of birth, life and death goes on and on... Have you ever thought about birth, youth, old age, death. why? Why do you go through this cycle of birth and death? Why does one have relatives, family, and friends? The day starts and ends, for what? Have you ever thought? Have you ever wondered? Each person lives a different life according to different stages of growing up. As a child, life is completely different than life as a youth, similarly life as a youth is 60

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