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VAGARIES OF THE MIND
is only the naive and superficial person who can think that at the moment of death we just become a ‘corpse’. Every sensible person has always sought to know his/her roots or the Home Land. Every one of us here spent quite a bit of our life in search of our source and many of us do feel to have had a glimpse of the Unknown. Paradox it may seem but that is what it is! Some in fact do feel that they are successful in their endeavour and the mystery of it is that only when they had become a ‘corpse’ (living dead) they ‘realised!’ and started their real life.
What I say may appear ridiculous, and bizarre. But that is the manner in which the wisdom is passed on through millennia by good people who understood human nature and wanted to pass on the teaching for having a better life and a reasonable hope for the future. The wise Socrates said as he looked forward to his last hour "Wars, factions, and fighting, have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure
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