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. The Wolf of Time rushes upon him when he is still prattling of my children, my wife, my wealth, my relations. Death swallows him when he is still thinking of what is done, what is yet to be done and what is half-done. Therefore do today what is required to be ready tomorrow, do in the forenoon what is meant for the afternoon.