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Date Posted: 12:39:20 05/20/06 Sat
Author: d - 3 April 2006
Subject: Re: Preparation for Death
In reply to: Hairakhan - 3 April 2006 's message, "Preparation for Death" on 12:38:13 05/20/06 Sat

Verse in the Mahābhārata (Vana-parva 313.116) in which Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira answers this question from his father, Yamarāja: "What is the most amazing thing in the world?" Yudhiṣṭhira replies,

ahany ahani bhūtāni
gacchantīha yamālayam
śeṣāḥ sthāvaram icchanti
kim āścaryam ataḥ param

Day after day countless living entities in this world go to the kingdom of death. Still, those who remain aspire for a permanent situation here. What could be more amazing than this?

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  • Re: Preparation for Death -- redpurusha - 4 Apr 2006, 12:40:28 05/20/06 Sat
  • Re: Preparation for Death -- Hairakhan - 4 Apr 2006, 12:41:36 05/20/06 Sat
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