What happened to some is well known. Why must it be told again? They see it with their eyes, they hear it with their ears, and what the Puranas say is also known to them. They know full well that this body is not permanent and that all things are subject to change. Why then does their own condition not become clear to them, as childhood turns to youth and youth to old age? Why are they so enamored of beloved, children, and wealth? Who among them has ever been of lasting use to anyone? Why is this precious human birth being wasted? Why do they not chant Rama, Rama? What spell of forgetfulness has overtaken them, even as they watch others dying before their eyes? Says Tuka, what will they do when they are bound by Death in the adamantine noose?