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SERMON 62

About the transience of the
world

Beware ! surely this
world is a place from which protection cannot be sought except
while one is in it. The action which is performed only for this
world cannot secure salvation. People are tested in it through
calamities. Those who have taken worldly pleasures here will be
taken out from them (by death) and will be questioned about them.
And whatever (good actions) they have achieved for the other
world, they will get them there and stay in them. For the
intelligent this world is like the shade - one moment it is spread
out and extended but soon it shrinks and contracts.