Why am I writing on Death? On such a taboo subject. Lost a cousin brother :( Chahere bhaiya the. Would be 40 + age group. Today, afternoon my dad called me told this sick news. He used to work in a bank in Ara. He was a good person. Fully inculcated with maithil values. My dad had met with him in Feb'08. Don't know what went wrong and it happened. Perhaps, one of the most sorrowful event of my family. No idea how bhabhi and his kids gonna cope this situation. No idea. Don't know. Will have to clean shave my hair on the head. Anyways, these are just part of life.
Above is the reality. Now coming to philosophical part. I remember in my 10Th class sanskrit book we had yudhishtir and yaksha samwaad. Yaksha ask yudhisthir - Kim aascharyam? That is what is wonder of this world? Yudhishtir says - Everyday people die but, everyone thinks that he/she will never die. This is the biggest wonder of the world. He is rightly saying. Death is the biggest sorrow of life. No body wants to die. Attachment of life is so high that to live people are even ready to die. Everyone wants to live. To not to die they are even ready to die. Life is the biggest attachment. That's why death is the most sorrowful event. However, there are ways to make it a celebration.
All the religions you see has been sprout out of death. It's death which created all the religions. Death is the seed, Religion is the tree, Moksha is the fruit. Buddha saw a dead body, and he left everything. Buddhism came into picture. Nothing was happening to him unless he saw a dead body. The dead body was the point of transition. He saw the dead body and he understood. We also see dead body but we don't understand anything. We see it's not our body and we happily return to our home. But, we all know what's gonna happen one day. It's okay if I say, that dead body was a very important cause behind the creation of Buddhism. Hinduism is also like that. In Hinduism there is a concept of Moksha. Which means liberation from the cycle of birth and death. So death is the central point of all the religion. If people were not dying then we would not have religion probably. It's death which propels us to think what's gonna happen after death. Hinduism believes in re-incarnation. Christianity, Judaism, Islam doesn't believe in re-incarnation. For them there is only one life. That's why they live with full intensity. They have to do everything in this life only. Because, there is only one life. They have to make full use of it. That's one reason they could progressed more. In India, things happen in a relaxed manner. We believe in eternity. We do not believe in single life concept. That's why you won't find Indians that intensive as people in the west. People in the west are always in hurry. Because, they have only one life. Say 100 years. In India, people don't hurry much. Coz they have next life. If something they cant achieve in the current life, they aspire to achieve in the next life. Chalo is janam me nahi to agle janam me hi sahi. Even marriage is done for 7 life time. That is you marry same girl till next 7 life time. Indian's plans can span upto 7 life times. Indians can have plan upto eternity also. Lol.
The whole endeavour is to get released from the cycle of birth and death. This what Hinduism is all about. This is called Moksha. But it doesn't happen so easily. This is probably the most rarest phenomena. It is said for Moksha even the kingdom of whole universe can be dropped. Even the kingdom of whole of the universe is not even parts and partial of Moksha. Moksha means you done. You are supremely free. There is no bondage now. No slavery. No desire. What will you desire? Even the desire of desire is gone. Difficult to achieve. Buddha achieved that. It happens very rarely. Hardly among billions and trillions of people anyone achieve moksha. Buddha was out of any desire. He didn't have any desire left in him. He didn't have even desire to take food. Amazing must be HE. Wanted to meet him. Lol.
Death puts a question mark on our every activity. Suppose, someone is earning, enjoying, eating, shitting, working hard. But why? To die one day? No matter how great we do but we anyway gonna die, gonna be mingled into dust. So why panic. More than 99% of humanity has been working for no reason. Has been working to be finished. Perhaps one reason I could think of is working lets you to forget death temporarily. But, we all know it's gonna happen. Not today, but some day later. By keeping our self busy in work we try to forget death. And we do succeed to some extent. And we keep on neglecting death our whole life. And one day comes and everything get finished. All our sand-castle we had made get destroyed. All the dreams are destroyed. Because, dreams were created. Anything created will be destroyed one day. Nothing remains. Only thing which was never created will be never destroyed. And that's the existence. Existence was never created. Never. It's always there. Except existence everytihng is created. So, they will be destroyed. They will have to destroy. That is one reason I said - Existence is the only God. Eating, earning, sleeping, enjoying, mating and shitting is not the only activity of the life. Death destroyes everything. That's is one reason the whole of humanity has been afraid of death. No body wants to die. I myself wants to live 200 years. Lol. I want to see how would be the world 200 years later from now. What kind of gadgets would be used. etc. But at the end I want to be supremely free. In any case I do not want re-birth. No desire left to learn A, B, C, D again just to dig my own grave. This life will be my last life. The last game. The last drama. The last play. The last barrier.
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