Avoid repenting in old age.
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
We are here on this earth because God Himself had created us and then sent us on this earth and therefore, we must know that God would not create a useless thing. When God Himself created us, it means, God has got some purpose for the fulfillment of which He had created us. It is on record that only some of the people on this earth could know what had been the purpose for the fulfillment of which God had created them and it is also on record that they worked on those projects and attained what God desired of them and it is also an accepted fact that most of the people who had been sent on this earth could never know the purpose for the fulfillment of which God had created them and that is the reason they just live and complete the tenure of life awarded to them and it is also on record that all these people who could not know the purpose of their creation just live and go and when they are reaching the end of life, most of their time is spent in repenting on the events of life.
That is the reason, each one of us must spend at least half an hour daily having an introspection so that he could give time to his thoughts. If we go on with this rehearsal, there are possibilities that within afew days, we would be in a position to know the purpose for which God had created us and sent us on this earth. All wishes, all desires, all our demands and all our frustrations are giving us something which is the purpose of our life. Even our frustration and failures are telling us something and if we are examining all these items, we shall come to know the purpose for the fulfillment of which we had been created. And for doing something in life, we should draw a time table. We are with a prescribed period of life and we are to fulfill our desires and wishes during this tenure. Therefore, we should fix time for our study, for our training and for adjustment in life, we should fix time for separating from the joint family and then for setting up our own house. We should know what shall be the number of our children and what shall be their luck and destiny. We should know that one day we shall become old and shall be helpless and therefore, each one of us must be contributing something to some fund which shall provide us help in old age. The people who are dependant in old age on others often they suffer and therefore, if you are not a pensioner, then you should opt some pension scheme which may provide you in old age. And if your children are well settled and holding their own reputation, you shall be hearing good news from their side and they are not well settled, you shall be hearing bad news from their side and all these news shall be disturbing you and you would be having repentance in old age which shall be create killing atmosphere in your life.
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