Passage 6

In English

We do not know when this body, made up of the five sense organs, will drop off. Though they say that a hundred years is the limit, do not believe it. We may die in childhood, in youth, in middle age or in old age. This we do not know. Whether we will die in our own village or in the wilderness, we do not know. Death is the ultimate certainty. The wise man must realise the truth and death during his lifetime. If you give up this , the body illusion, during your lifetime, you will be able to develop the higher notion, the . There must be a limit up to which you may nourish this body which can be compared to a boat. Your life is the river. On one side of the river is this world and on the other side is the other world. You have undertaken a voyage from this world to the other world, using the body as the boat and you must take care of this body until you reach the other shore. This body must be looked upon as a boat, as a means to an end but not as an end in itself.