Our Material Relationships are Temporary
Our Material Relationships are Temporary This world is temporary, but because of our previous karma we come here and accept bodies, creating temporary relationships in terms of society, friendship, love, nationality and community, which are all finished at death. These temporary relationships did not exist in the past, nor will they exist in the future. Therefore at the present moment the so-called relationships are illusions. Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 6, Chapter 15, Purport of Text 2 As water passes down a river, many straws and grasses are carried from the shore. These straws and grasses come together in the river's current, but when the waves toss this way and that, they are separated and carried somewhere else. Similarly, the innumerable living entities within this material world are being carried by the waves of material nature . Sometimes the waves bring them together, and they form friendships and relate to one another on a bodily basis of family, co