Death the Ultimate Truth

We cannot really live, without understanding death. Death is a topic everyone avoids due to various reasons. In modern society death is cleaned, sanitized and kept in a corner. In offices it is restricted to maintaining two minutes of silence. Just in last few months I have attended numerous such two minute meeting.

Irony of all this is that everyone thinks that I matter so much, but the truth of the matter is that world will go on without us, as if we were never born.

 My nana ji passed away at the ripe age of 95, but just few days before his passing he told me that it may look like a long life but now when I look back it passed away very fast.

We all know we are going to die one day. But we think it is somewhere in distant future, so I don’t need to think about it now. It is a great fallacy because death may be more nearer to us than we imagine.

Biggest lesson death imparts is of impermanence. Our whole life we are in search of something permanent. We want something in our life which will make us believe that that I will be forever. We want to be more than just a chance creation, which will soon be forgotten into oblivion.

Some of us try to create great legacies in this material world, like Alexander others try to find immortality in going after the search for God. But this type of search is fueled but fear of death rather than the actual love for our creator.

In the end the truth is that from dust we come and to the dust we go.

We come into this world empty hand and go empty hand.

Material accumulation can certainly make your life comfortable, but will not alleviate your fear of death.

It does not matter how long you live, because it will pass away very soon.

Death is the only permanent thing in this impermanent world.  

We cannot really start living, if do not understand what death is.

Thank you, please do share your views.

Jai Shee Hari.