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moment arrives. The world is merely a halting
place for the soul. The soul gets a human
form after going through a number of births.
After leaving this body, the soul doesn't know
as to which form of life it will enter into next,
and where and with who as parents. The
mystery remains unresolved till date. Kinship
relations of the worldly life are unpredictable.
They can be likened to the two wooden sticks
getting together and then separating in the
sea-waves perhaps never to be together
again. The relations of kinship and pleasures
of life are limited to this world.
According to Gita, human life is short.
The people, having experienced the
consequences of their past actions, must leave
this world one day. Nobody can block this
process. This has continued since the world
came into existence. Coming and going
constitute life process.