What is Death
There
is no birth or death. Everything goes on changing from in the stream of
eternity. Being born with a human body in this world’s itself destiny. One who
has a taste for God’s love wants to be born again and again with a human body,
because the taste of His love cannot be possible other than in that human
birth.
Life
has no death. Life is Eternal. What we call death or end of life is actually a
phase and is concerned only with the body. Body consists of matters, which
dissolve in time to their original form, but self has no dissolution. We have
come for a few days not forever. Why should we bother for anything?
When
an individual first appears in the Womb of the mother, matters appear
instantly. At that stage mind lies in a state of inertia. Mind and matter are
nothing but one. With their gradual manifestation the difference in them is
identified. From that state the individual is in the domain of nature and a
series of phenomena determine one’s every development. Sometimes it seems
mechanical.
Human
birth is the rarest of all the births; we should try to live our life keeping
Him in view. Human life is meant to feel His divine Play and thereby understand
the nobility of the Creator. The mystery of birth will be unfolded only when
the sweetness and beauty of the God’s Divine Play, which is the eternal Truth,
is realized by turning the consciousness inward
Birth
means a soul entering a body and death is its departure from the Body. The soul
itself has neither a beginning nor an end; it is eternal or anadi and ananta.
The soul entering a body on this earth or on other planets of the universe
performs some actions that are karma.
Karma
may enable a soul to attain the eternal bliss or Mokska. On the other hand
karma causes endless continuation of the cycle of birth and death of a soul. As
you sow so shall you reap. Thus, Karma plays the pivotal role in a pilgrim’s
progress towards Mokska; its attainment or the lack of it. In its Karma, the
atama is absolutely free and unfettered. A soul charts its own course evasion
on uncharted sea. How does an atma go about it? The 14th mantra of the 23rd
chapter of Yajurveda gives an appropriate and crystal clear guidance:
We
are here with this body. Just maintain the body, nothing else. Body is not
ours. We have taken that body the temple of God as a temporary place to enjoy
Him in the (God’s creative force which manifests in nature, and therefore God’s
grace to us). When we have come here, we have come here with mind senses,
desire and attachments. We shall have to give something to them. If we stop
everything, they will revolt.
To
be born with human form in this mortal world has only one happy object. That is
the relish the joy of God’s Love. Only it is the tendency of human mind to run
under the compulsion of innumerable allurements and attachments. But even being
involved in them what a Supreme blessing is this human birth. How ineffably is
this world filled with beauty and flavor! We have come to taste it! But we have
become otherwise engaged. Be always with God’s name then the objective with
which we have come here will be realized.
Human
mind is similar to an Ocean, which are active at its surface and more and more
quite (Silent) at its depth. Human beings are borne in the body with God from
His blissful world to get real (Supreme Bliss) by the taste of His love in this
mortal and illusory world. But superstitious human involvements and ignorant
irresponsible attitude towards God do not allow us to come near to Him or to
feel His love for which we get the rear human birth. We ignore God in pursuit
of worldly pleasures, profits, and attachments, which please now and depress
the very next moment. We waste the precious human birth given to us. We cannot
give up the superstitious of our egoistic living in the world and we forget
Him, the Truth.
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