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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
imagine that we are much older. Imagine also that the family doctor has told that we have only a few days left to live. Think that the members of family, who usually are constantly by our bedside, have gone away to get some dinner. We are left alone to look back on our past. As we look back at our life what do we see? Do we have lots of regrets: that we never did what we wanted to? That we never meditated the way that we wanted to, and we never realized the universal truth about our own real nature that we hoped to realize.
Instead we spent our life doing some engineering or computer soft ware all the time which seemed like eternal drudgery. Or when we really wanted to help others we did not or that we did not give love to the people who we really wanted to give love.
Now it is our task to think about what would make us feel that our life is worthwhile. For this we need to examine things around and notice what would have made our life fascinating. What would have filled it with joy so that we could have full time
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