Sri Shirdi Saibaba
Friends, relatives, wife and children all are limited only to this particular life. Each person and his relationship to you are limited only to this life. Who knows who will be entangled with you in your forthcoming birth? It is our vasanas (proclivities) which keep us entangled forever without letting go of us. They are the seed bed of the next birth. That is why, if one does not increase his infatuation with the karma, one would gain immeasurably in the hereafter. One stays for a day or two in one choultry and then moves on towards his destination without forming my association or infatuation with it. In the same way, one should look upon this world as a choultry and not form any attachments. Thus, one should continue to do one's duty and recognize and revere the Almighty that is the form of satchidananda (existence-knowledge-bliss).One should do one's duty and present the result and the feeling of being the doer to the Almighty and be untouched by it all.
As long as one is alive, one should take care of the body. But it is a waste of time to think of or worry about death. This body is on loan to you from the panchabhutas (sky, wind, fire, water, earth). As life leaves it, the body returns to panchabhutas. The air joins air, the energy joins the energy. The body is a part of the earth. It is futile to cry for it when it dies. In the same manner, it is futile to feel happy at birth. One should be content thinking that it is but the law of nature. The earth shelters the seed. The clouds rain water. The plants are born by sun light. Does the earth, clouds or sun dance with joy at the sight of the plants sprouting? In the same way, the wise are beyond these feelings of happiness or sorrow. We should be like that. Where then is the scope for happiness or sorrow?
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