So How Should I Actually Live?

The reclamation payoff: the death purana carries some of the sharpest practical niti in Sanskrit. Money, company, speech, learning, the borrowed body, and the householder’s ordinary day as the path.

Lessons in this chapter

• The Counsel Nobody Expects — Niti verses in the book of death.
• Wealth, According to the Book of Death — Giving is the only saving.
• Company and Character — Who you keep close is your fate.
• Speech and Learning — The wealth no one can steal, the act with the fastest karma.
• The Borrowed Body — An issued instrument, to be maintained and returned.
• The Ordinary Day as Practice — The kitchen and the commute are the ashram.

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