12 LIFE LESSONS FROM A MAN WHO HAS SEEN 12000 DEATHS

“People stop eating indulgent food when they know they are going to go. The understanding that dawns on many people in their final days is that they should’ve lived a simple life. They regret that the most,” says Shukla.

A simple life, as he explains, can be attained by spending less. We spend more to accumulate more and thus create more need. To find contentment in less is the secret to having more.

Mukti Bhavan plays soulful bhajans and devotional songs three times a day. “Some people”, he says, “stop and admire a note or the sound of the instruments as if they have never heard it before, even if they have. They pause to appreciate it and find beauty in it.”

But that’s not true of everyone, he adds. People who are too critical or too proud, are the ones who find it hard to find joy in small things because their minds are preoccupied with “seemingly” more important things.

1. Resolve all conflicts before you go
2. Simplicity is the truth of life
3. Filter out people’s bad traits
4. Be willing to seek help from others
5. Find beauty in simple things
6. Acceptance is liberation
7. Accepting everyone as the same makes service easier
8. If/When you find your purpose, do something about it
9. Habits become values
10. Choose what you want to learn
11. You don’t break ties with people; you break ties with the thought they produce
12. 10 percent of what you earn should be kept aside for dharma

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