Vidura said to Dhritarashtra, know that you are not this body, this package of nauseating things. To identify yourselves with the physical frame is the sign of extreme foolishness. The body is being besieged perpetually by Death with His army of Diseases. But, you are unaware of it, you do not care for the pros and the cons, you snooze your fill and snore. This drama has to end, remember. The curtain has to come down. So head towards some holy place without delay and meditate on God and save yourself. Let death come and carry away your body there; that is the most excellent end. Do not die like a dog or fox, somewhere, somehow. Arise and go, develop detachment. Give up this delusion, escape from this house. (Bhag Vahini, pp. 35-36)

Vidura said, ‘For those who march forwards to do austerities, there should be no fear or delusion, no hunger or thirst, no grief of suffering. It is not Tapas (asceticism) to complain or anticipate these hardships. When the body itself is being disowned, what can privations do? Come, there is no justification for delay’. (Bhag Vahini, p. 38)

Suka said, ‘Fools who cannot grasp the Truth, who cannot recognise Divinity and measure the Power of God, live in the delusion that their pretty plans will save them and that they can triumph through their own efforts. The fact is not even the smallest success can be won, without God’s Grace.’ (Bhag Vahini, p. 229)

‘You might say that you are weeping for the Atma, the spiritual core. That reveals greater foolishness. Death can never even approach the Atma. it is eternal, self evident, pure. It is evident that you have no Atma jnana at all’. (GV, p. 25)