As you take that next breath of fresh air, think about how impossible it was for this moment to have even existed. Your emotions, worries, happiness, unhappiness, awareness and sense of consciousness in this moment almost never made it to today. Think of the energy you spend on trying to secure your future in the context of all events that impacted your ancestry in these 5,000 years and events that will affect your progeny in future. You could have done nothing about that past; you can do nothing about future. You can only be thankful for the next breath, awareness of being alive, and make the most of this moment.
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.
