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the a rac ve, playful toys made him forget to pack the bags
with spiritual cash.
On the first floor of teenage, he got various delicacies
with love and affec on from his family. Also, he got to see
beau ful pictures and ar s c an ques. He got a formal worldly
educa on. He didn't sense the me passing by. In between,
Gurus inspired him to pack the bags with good merits. But
who was going to listen? Mr. Soulomon Patel was so lost,
immersed in the tastes of school, sports, games and cheap
curiosi es of outer world!
Then the soul entered the second floor of youth, where
the fire of lust enraged. So he got trapped and infatuated in
their gra fying looks, piggery play and flirta on! Aren't we
aware of the dreadful shadow and outcome of lus ul
rela ons? Even celes al gods slip in this! Also one gets
pleasures of dance and music, wine and vodka etc. in youth.
Then what is surprising if he becomes deaf and considers the
warning of packing bags by the Gurus to be u erly useless and
as a result becomes senseless?
Then he climbed on the third floor of old age. Sweet
music, so ma ress, cute grandchildren etc. very much
a racted his mind. He didn't hear the warning given by the
Gurus. Even in the last moments, on the verge of the sunset of
the death, he failed to collect the jewellery of spirituality.
And there the sunset of death appeared and Patel got
shocked! He repented “If I hadn't fallen in the ditch of sensual
pleasures and followed religious prac ces of charity, chas ty,
penance and noble feelings and more grave spiritual prac ce
of non-injury, self-restraint and penance. I would have
curtailed and destroyed heaps of sins. Then I would have
obtained heavenly pleasures of billions of years and merits
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helping me to a ain salva on (Moksha) in future. I would
have accomplished my aims”. At the me of death, he
regre ed too much seeing this spiritual jewellery worth
billions vanishing away from his eyes. He deeply regre ed!
But what could be done then? It was too late. Even if the
soul wants to wipe off his sins and earn good merits at the me
of sunset of death. Who would let him do? It is not in the hands
of anyone. Karma clearly declines to do so. And finally, Mr
Soulomon Patel departs to get roasted in the burning furnace
of terrible pains and miseries in the sorrowful life forms in the
slavery of karma. Sufferings of innumerable years result from
just a day of human life! Merit lends comforts and facili es to
the soul to earn spiritual cash but the trap in the varied
a rac on of childhood-teenage-youth and old age state,
Guru's warning 'Mr. Patel, pack the jewellery in your bags' even
the midst of all these a rac ons, the soul's carelessness
towards it, finally the karma's punishment etc. should be
properly understood. For this, recollect the story again,
minutely contempla ng on the secret of each le er.
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