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Morning is whenever you get up. Picture this :

31 March is approaching. You need to submit your accounts.
You are doing your accounts, and there is a lot of work that
needs to be done. If you feel sleepy, you shall keep yourself
awake and do the accounts. You may doze off for a short
while, but at the back of your mind remains the fact that you
need to submit your accounts in time. So whenever you wake
up, it is the morning for you.

Apply the same sense of urgency to your life. You need to
close your accounts. And only dharma will allow you to
close your account. Else, samsara is endless. You will keep
wandering in it infinitely if you do not choose the path of
dharma.

Eating (indulgence) will not help you end your migration in
samsara. Penance (non-indulgence) will help you end your
migration in samsara.

Attachment will not help you end your migration in samsara.
Detachment will help you end your migration in samsara.
Indulging the five senses will not help you end your migration
in samsara. Not indulging the five senses will help you end
your migration in samsara.

Indulging in sexual desire, anger and arrogance whenever you
get the opportunity will not help you end your migration in
samsara. In fact, it will fan the flames of your desire. Chastity,
forgiveness and humility will help you end your migration in
samsara if you practise them seriously and sincerely for a
long time. They will help you quell your sexual desire, anger
and arrogance one day.

If you wish to close your book of accounts with samsara, that
will not happen by continuously having new transactions by
indulging in sexual desire, anger and arrogance. You will

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