Dew drops on petals
Adi Shankaracharya wrote, nalini dalagata jalamati taralam tadvajjivita matisaya chapalam - your life is as fragile as a dew drop on a lotus petal. He further advised pranayamam, pratyaharam, nitya anitya viveka vicharam - regulate your breath, evaluate yourself, and discriminate between what is uncertain and what is permanent. Become self- aware, build your value system, live the moment, do your karm, stay happy, and leave the next 5,000 years to the same forces that shaped the path until now.
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