When your relatives are carried away by Death in your very presence and despite you utmost efforts to save them, that circumstance alone should awaken you.
स्वजनं हि यदा मृत्युर्हन्त्येव तव पश्यतः। कृतेऽपि यत्ने महति तत्र बोद्धव्यमात्मना॥