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It is the teaching of Gita that the death
is like amrit (elixir). The death makes human
life valuable. It is the death which inspires,
rather forces, the man to speed up the matters
and conclude them before it is too late. As if
it says, "Hurry up. No one is sure of the breath,
the sign of life. Inhaling may not necessarily
be followed by exhaling." Exhaling is the sign
of life; not exhaling is the death. Every person
has to pass through the stages of old age
and death. No one has so far been above
these compulsions. Old age means
unavoidable afflictions of the body. The
diseases, troubles, agonies, difficulties
occurring to the body in the old age, cannot
be cured by any power that be — a physician,
a surgeon or an ascetic for that matter. Only
the death can cure them; better say, only death
is their cure. Suppose, the old age has arrived.
The functioning efficiency of the senses has
come down considerably, the body has been