Death is a word that creates fear in the mind of every person. Death is an unavoidable truth, which would kill anyone who is born. This fact is well known, but still people have the fear of the end of life.

There are many things written in the religious scriptures, which are not less than any treasure. Some early signs of death are written in the Santi Parva of Mahabharata. Mahabharat also lists out some really good lessons of life. It has a lot to teach us, qualities that one can imbibe in one’s personal conduct and perhaps, in one’s life.

In the Anushasan Parva of Mahabharata, the factors that are responsible for increasing and reducing people’s age were written which were revealed by Bhishma Pitamah to Yudhisthir. He has also revealed some age-related secrets to him. Let’s look into these things closely and find out if we follow them in our day-to-day lives or not.

1. According to Mahabharata, people, who don’t believe in God, teachers, disrespects religion, receive death earlier.

2. People who don’t wash their hands after having food receive death earlier.

3. Those people who look at the sun during solar eclipse face the reduction in their age.

4. People who sleep even after sunrise dies soon.

5. People who chew their nails and remain unclean die early.

6. People who keep wetting their foreheads receive death earlier.

7. People who look into unclean mirrors, sleep on a broken bed don’t live for too long.

8. People who maintain relations with many women, who make love with pregnant women also die earlier.

9. Those who look at feces, sit cross-legged lose a lot of years of their life.

10. Applying sandal without taking a bath, such people lose a lot of years of their life.

11. Hairstyling, wearing coal in eyes, brushing/cleaning teeth, and worshipping gods are some of the works that people must complete every day before 9 am. People who were not following so, soon become the victims of Kaal.

12. People who read books at a wrong time don’t live for long.

13. On the other hand, people who look after elders, animals and sleep on time are blessed with longer lives.

14. Those who never get angry, respect everyone and treat all as equals live up to a 100 years.