When it is certain that you shall have to go helplessly to the other world, leaving behind all these things, alas, why do you then allow yourself to be attached to such worthless unsubstantial things, without attending to what forms your real and durable wealth?
यदा सर्वं परित्यज्य गन्तव्यमवशेन ते। अनर्थे किं प्रसक्तस्त्वं स्वमर्थं नानुतिष्ठसि॥