The Ocean of Light — Page 112
112 evil motivations, every sinful man and woman deviates from Divine commandments. Then there are also the effects of the company one keeps and one’s social circle. Evil companionship is poisonous and deadly, and anyone who becomes deeply involved in such companionships can have no hope for his reformation until the time of his death. The person who grows weak and old in sin, his evil becomes entrenched, his old age is one of great disobedience, and his heart can never be cured by physician or philosopher. He dies in sin but does not give up sin. The scroll of his evil deeds is never folded, for the worst kind of old age has overtaken him and there is no one to warn him. Happy life has turned away from him, and what little of life is left for him, he does not care for it, rather he is ever more inclined towards the wealth of this mortal world, its property, its estates, its gold, its orchards, its fruits, homes, abodes, flowers, and beauty. Even though death is at his door and the time for his eternal sleep is nigh,