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other kinds of activities.' Life-span depends
on breaths, which is a game of numbers. There
are people, who exhaust their wealth of
breaths rather early. Then there are people
who succeed in augmenting strength of their
breaths by yarna (doing moral duty). niyama
(restraining the mind), sanyama (self-restraint),
pranayama (controlling breathing while
remembering God), yogabhyasa (practice of
meditation), brahmacharya (religious
studentship), and so on. His life-span is
extended. Wicked actions quicken the rate of
breathing. During the company of the good,
religious discourse, service to the people, and
acts of bhakti, our breathing is normal. it
depends on us, how we spend and utilize our
breaths. The unwise waste them in worldly
pleasures, passions, diseases, griefs, tensions
and so on. The wise live a life of regularity,
restraint and sobriety and live long. Gita drives
the fear of death out of the man's mind and