Verbal knowledge is of no avail for the destruction of the delusion of the world. Let no blind men be led by the blind. It is wisdom to go straight to the essence of the scriptures, like the swan sipping milk out of water. Study them, know their essential truth and then leave them aside like husk after collecting the grain. Remember, the body does not last for ever.
Age prowls like a leopard, diseases strike like an enemy.
It is a wonder how men can be so complacent and unmindful when everywhere there is thunder of crash. Time flies without your knowing. Prosperity is like a dream, youth like a blossom, life-span momentary like lightning. Even a hundred years is too little, for half the life is spent in sleep and the other half is made infructuous by infancy, disease, misery, age and what not. He fails to see that with every moment that passes his body decays.