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of worldly phenomenon. If you look at it with
discerning eyes, you will find it different;
different from as the ordinary people see it.
You will, however find it colourful and lovely if
you see it with the eyes of greed, passion,
desire and pleasure." Look at your own body.
It is undergoing changes every moment. Each
day is cutting down your life-span. 'I am today,
say, forty years old' is an expression of
ignorance. The truth is that our life span has
reduced by one year. He, who understands
this change and through it the soul, is neither
sad, nor worried. He is the truly learned man.
The following teaching of Gita is memorable:
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"As the soul, residing in the body, goes
through the stages of childhood, youth and
old age, so it transmigrates to another body
after death. The wise people are not perturbed