What limitations pertain to the relative existence of the individual? These are janma (birth) and mṛtyu (death). What manifests will, by definition, also pass away. This must be acknowledged. People spend their entire lives trying, against all odds, to preserve what they have acquired. It gives enormous peace, pride, even joy, to acknowledge that we are doomed. How foolish to regret facts. Facts are divine, after all, because everything is divine, except ignorance.

Then there is aging (jarā). The deterioration of the body begins even from childbearing age. This is something we should better acknowledge. Then we can let it take its course in a relaxed way. The purpose of growing older is to mature, to become wise. But what do you see many modern seniors doing? Complaining (things were better in the past, etc.). Life is working towards a free death. Many modern seniors still live in excessive, binding desires, and as retirees, have long bucket lists and, for example, have to fly around the world a few more times. Do we really think that reality needs millions of older jīvas to destroy the world? This is a violation of personal svabhava, which is meant to lead to freedom.

Illness (vyādhi) is also simply built in, and not something to worry about. What is healthy will also sometimes be ill. It's a law of nature, but generally speaking, we are much more often not ill than ill.

Let's intensify. Suffering (duḥkha) is different from pain. Pain (tapas) is inevitable, just like illness. Pain is natural and guides us through life, protecting us from things like infection and bleeding to death without us realizing it. Pain is a symptom that gives the body the opportunity to energetically recover. Pain is an invitation to healing. Pain is essentially grossly physical. Suffering is subtle and physical. A person only suffers when an inner judgment is made about physical pain or an event. Suffering is just a thought. This shouldn't be the case. After the thought, the body can create more pain in the form of stress, etc. Fear often lies behind suffering. Fear of being even less than I already was. This leads to fear of death (suffering from the idea of ​​becoming insignificant), fear of falling short when in pain, the idea, so to speak, that pain "disrupts my happiness." There is also often fear of losing something precious, while attachment to cherished things only limits us, instead of recognizing our infinity.

All of this offers a compelling invitation to take a closer look at some of life's dynamics, which we generally experience as negative, but are simply neutral phenomena: jarā vyādhi duḥkha doṣānudarśanam (Bhagavad Gītā 13.8).

Considering the impermanence of unavoidable things like birth, death, old age, illness, and suffering is of great value in becoming an emotionally mature, lucid, and relativistic person, capable of knowledge.