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