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1) Inappropriate activities occurring due to blind love
will come to a halt,

2) A stop in inappropriate activities and sins will decrease
your faults and vices leading to a consecutive decline
in future instances of sorrow.

Death is certain. Inspite of knowing this why can’t man die
with contentment?

Because he harbours blind and intense attachment towards
the worldly pleasures and situations he has attained. Now, he
can see everything slipping away. He feels he is losing out on
all that he has. Then how can he remain at peace? Sorrow,
dejection and misery are certain.

Life is in his own hands. Then why can’t man live a

contented life?

He perceives all that he has acquired to be good, reliable and
beneficial and thus gets attached to it but due to his feeble
Punya, those favourable objects and circumstances are also
subject to change. It depresses him. In this world, change is
constant. It is rightly said, “Everything changes but change.”
Owing to this, the one who is immensely attached to a

particular object, person or situation is bound to be dejected.

Instead, if you had remained non-attached and would not
have had blind faith on these ever-changing worldly affairs,
if you had prepared yourself that favourable circumstances
are short-lived and there is no point in trusting and liking

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