"You who wish to celebrate the birthday, seek first
whence was your birth. One’s true birthday is when he enters
That which transcends birth and death — the Eternal Being.
At least on one’s birthday one should mourn one’s
entry into this world (samsara). To glory in it and celebrate
it is like delighting in and decorating a corpse. To seek
one’s Self and merge in the Self: that is wisdom." (Sri Ramana Maharshi)