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There is an old legend which tells of a king who could not understand the language of birds. One day, as he was walking in his garden, he heard the birds saying, “The king knows a little that death had an appointment with his favourite page that evening.” The king was disturbed. He wanted to save his favourite page. So he gave him the fastest steed and asked him to leave the country and go to a remote place before sunset. Assured that his servant was safe, he walked once again his garden. In the evening, he heard the bird saying, “the king did little know that his favourite had an appointment with death, at a remote place, where he could not have reached if the king had not given him the of the fastest horse” The king learned the lesson of his life that death cannot be circumvented and no one can play a trick upon death. If man regards his things that is God as his own and the extraneous thing that is body- world as not his own, then he becomes at once liberated, there is not an iota of doubt about it. In the Gita where there are mentioned the traits of a “gun-atita”, great man that is of one who has transcended the three folds of nature, there he is spoken of as the one who is stationed in his own being and is equanimous in moments of sorrow and happiness. Such a man is a liberated soul. To expect