Hi g7:

I prepared this in liu of an E-card of commpassion, on the occasion of the passing of your dear friend and your rebirth to "eternal life", on day 322, your "clean and sobre" day one.

The Translator writes:

"Like a falling Leaf, this body is worn out with age, a nest of disease and falling apart. The mass of destruction disintegrates and death is the end of life."

I think this translation, although it is sufficient, is very westernized, so that it is palatable to the Jeudeo-Christan dualist bias, much like a Readers Digest version.
Originally, however when death was approaching and "in your face", the wisdom of the ancestors was to do a purification fast and by way of fasting return to a state of "heaven", a state of bliss ("Ananda") and to the fullness of being in complete contact with the universal "eternal life" force within. This is ours in the Here and NOW of the Divine Kingdom,in the present moment,forever.

There is only one reality, in conciousness and that is being in this moment. After our body departs from the tree of life, we return to the Godhead of pure Mind, like the leaf returns to the soil, or a drop of water to the Sea.


BE HERE (X) NOW !!!

gk/MFT_VFU :-)

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