Everyone has to make his exit some day;
that moment should not be a moment of anguish.
One should depart with a smile and a bow.
To do that, a lot of preparation is necessary.
To depart leaving all that has been
accumulated during a long lifetime is a hard task.
Prepare for it now by discarding attachment
to one thing after another from now on.
You see many things in dreams
and many things are acquired by you
during dreams; power, pelf, status, reputation.
But when you awake,
you do not weep over the loss,
even though for the duration of
the dream all that was very real,
and gave you real satisfaction and joy.
"That was a dream," you tell yourself.
What prevents you from treating with
similar nonchalance the possessions
gathered during the waking stage of your life?
Cultivate that attitude and
you can depart with a smile
whenever the curtain falls on this dreamland stage.
divinely sent
