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• Birth is taken for granted. Death is hard
to accept. Birth is cherished. Death is
feared. The two as poles are considered
mutual opposites. That is not true. The
both are inter-connected. The new born
is the one who died earlier. And the once
born is certain to die. Death is as natural
as birth.
Between these two poles lies the human
life process, manifest in the social life of
man wherein he goes for all sorts of
worldly pleasures. However, happiness
experienced in them is unreal.
• In fact, the pursuit for worldly pleasures
realizes greed and anger, on account of
which not only the individual suffers but
also the society at large.
• The answer to this is yoga, i.e. union with
God. Yoga is a series of inter-related
concepts. Practising yoga is performing