To-day is my Father’s death Anniversary आज मेरे पिता जी की पुण्यतिथि है।

My Dad passed away at will on January 28th of 2006 attaining the age of 101. My Mom passed away August 11th of 2012 attaining the age of 96, leaving an emptiness inside of me that can never be filled. It's strange the little things you miss about your parents. My Mom would call me and tell me father’s Greatness every time, l have ever heard. (Smile) What l wouldn't give to hear her voice once again telling me about her experiences. Cherish your parent’s people, and remember you only get one pair. Everything, whether good or bad, every success, every disappointment, your character, your looks everything that makes you who you are is because of your parents, therefore they deserve your respect.

A Father’s Love Is One of The Greatest Powers to Impact a Child’s Development

A father’s love contributes as much — and sometimes more — to a child’s development as does a mother’s love. That is one of many findings in a new large-scale analysis of research about the power of parental rejection and acceptance in shaping our personalities as children and into adulthood.

I Love you Dad.

Death makes no distinction between old and young. Whenever it has to come, it comes. We are helpless against death, and that helplessness has been the very source of all religion. If death can be destroyed, then all religion will disappear from earth. Death is a reminder not to take life seriously; it is momentary. Only meditation cannot be destroyed by death. Meditation is one of the best experience, Meditation is a temporary death, where the soul is taken out of the body by a continuous hard and sincere practice. (In Bible It is said “Die when you live.”)

So, I don’t cry and don’t feel sorry for my father, because whether one dies at 55 or 95 or 101, it makes no difference. Somebody’s dream is a little shorter and somebody’s dream is a little longer, but a dream is a dream! The length of the dream does not matter in the final analysis. In the final accounting, how long you dream does not matter. You can be 55 or 95 or 101, but whenever death comes, the whole is annihilated. It is just as when we wake up in the morning and the whole night and the dream world is simply no more meaningful — it loses all meaning

Whenever somebody like a father or a mother dies, something in us also dies. A father is not just outside; his being overlaps our being. We have come through him. He has been the vehicle to bring us to life and he occupies some inner space. When a father or mother dies, something in us also dies with them. We will never be the same again — a gap will be there. A father cannot be replaced; a mother cannot be replaced. So rather than crying and feeling sorry — because those are tricks of the mind to avoid death... if we look at death directly in the eye without letting emotions interfere, then death becomes meditation.

My father has died — this is a fact. Now, whether I cry or not makes no difference, so what is the point? Death has happened; we cannot undo it. So, rather than wasting time, I look deeply into it, and in the death of my father I will see my own death coming, and the death of my children, and the death of my grandchildren.

Death is a universal fact — nobody is an exception to it; all are included in it. Look into the fact of death and we will see whole existence dying, and that will give us deep insight — not only about death but about life, because it is life that brings death.

Death is implied in life, inbuilt; it unfolds. When the child is born, he starts dying from the very first breath that he takes. When he has taken one breath, he is one breath old — something has died. Just in the very birth, something starts dying. It will take 55 or 90 or 101 years for death to unfold, but it seems that life carries the seed of death in itself.

Look into this death; meditate over it without any interference from the emotions. Face it, and that very encounter will give us a deep understanding of life. Then our life can never be the same again, because what is the point then? What my father was doing is meaningless. I will be doing the same, and death will come and destroy everything. So, do something which death cannot destroy.

I say to you that there is only one thing which death cannot destroy, and that is meditation. Everything is vulnerable to death, only meditation is not.

The deeper we go inwards, the further away we are from death. The further out we move, the deeper we move into death. At the innermost core, there is no death.... Look out and we look into death. Look in and we look into the deathless. That deathlessness is what meditation is all about. Ordinarily, nobody thinks about death, but when something like this happens — these rare moments have to be used, these rare moments should not be wasted.

So I get out of emotions, because it is futile. The further away we are, the more death will become a memory and we will accept it and then it will not be possible to use it. We are still close to it; it is still fresh — the wound has not healed. Before it is healed, use it. And this wound can become a message to the beyond.

Just meditate about it — and love more. Love and death are very similar.

Your Blessing are always there with us. And Bless us all always.