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Namah Vol. 28, Issue 2, 15th July 2020

he would. A dying man knows the pointlessness shock that all the negative emotions we have
of enmity. Hatred is always such a wretched harboured while embodied, propelled by
feeling. Who wishes to die feeling hatred in his egoic fear and desire, are mere toxic phantoms
heart? No one. The dying seek love and peace.” that have led us astray. Unfortunately it
will be too late, for once again we are at the
– Chan Master Hsu-Yun mercy of powerful karmic forces and we have
no power to determine what karma will be
If we are wise, we will contemplate the fact projected from our mountainous accretion
that, at some point, without our permission, to create our next incarnation. But, if today
and usually without warning, our body and we accept that our true nature is nothing
mind will dissolve back into the elements. At less than pure-existence, awareness and bliss
the second of physical death, all our assets (another name for love), then we can bring
and possessions are forgotten and left behind. that realisation into our lives today and walk
Perhaps only then will we realise with a confidently towards the blazing light.

Mira Prabhu was a prolific author living in Tiruvannamalai, India. She blogged at https://miraprabhu.
wordpress.com and succumbed to cancer in January, 2019.

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