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Saturday, July 23, 2005
.............. realise i veri wu liao kope this from http://www.yogaofsrichinmoy.com/the_earth_plane/the_human_condition/deaththeend/..... haha... of course not i write one lol... have fun reading this... This is a serious article sia
Is Death The End?
Death can never be the end.
Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The soul is the guide.
When the traveller is tired and exhausted, the guide instructs the traveller totake either a short or a long rest, and then the traveller’s journey begins again.In the spiritual life, when an aspirant does not cry for a higher light, bliss andpower, it is the birth of his death.
In the ordinary life, when an unaspiring man wallows in the mire of ignorance,it is the real victory of death.
What can we learn from the inner life which desires the extinction of death?The inner life tells us that life is soulfully precious, that time is fruitfullyprecious.
Life without the aspiration of time is meaningless.Time without the aspiration of life is useless.
Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks ofImmortality. Mind and death can be transcended. Heart and life can be expanded.Soul and Immortality can be fulfilled.
When the mind and death are transcended, man will have a new home: Light,the Light of the Beyond.
When the soul and Immortality are fulfilled, man will have a new Goal:Delight, the Transcendental Delight.
Today man feels that death is an unavoidable necessity.Tomorrow man will feel that Immortality is an unmistakable reality.
Unfortunately, most of us cherish wrong conceptions of death. We think deathis something unusual, something destructive. But we have to know that right nowdeath is something natural, normal and, to some extent, inevitable.
Lord Krishna tells Arjuna, “O Arjuna, certain is death for the born andcertain is birth for the dead. Therefore, what is inevitable ought not be a cause forthy sorrow.”
The Chandogya Upanishad tells us something significant: “When the hour ofdeath approaches [that is to say, in the final hour], what should we do? Weshould take refuge in three sublime thoughts: we are indestructible; we can neverbe shaken; we are the very essence of life.”
When the hour of death approaches us, if we feel that we can never bedestroyed, that nothing can shake us and that we are the very essence of life, thenwhere is sorrow, where is fear, where is death? No death.
Sarada Devi, the consort of Sri Ramakrishna, said something very significant.She said, “The difference between a spiritual man and an ordinary man is verysimple. Easily you can know the difference between the two. An ordinary mancries and sheds bitter tears when death approaches him; whereas, a spiritual man,if he is really spiritual, will laugh and laugh when death approaches him, for tohim death is fun, nothing else.”
Here we have to say that a spiritual man enters into the Cosmic Game; hebecomes a conscious instrument of the Cosmic Game. That is why he knows thatdeath is not an extinction. It is only a short or a long rest.
Again and again, we shall have to come back into the world. We have to workfor God, here on earth. There is no escape. We have to realise the Highest hereon earth. We have to fulfil the Highest on earth. God will not allow us to wasteor squander the potentialities and possibilities of the soul. Impossible.
Kipling’s immortal utterance runs,
They will come back, come back again,As long as the red Earth rolls.He never wasted a leaf or a tree.Do you think He would squander souls?
Each incarnation is leading us towards a higher life, a better life. We are in theprocess of evolution. Each incarnation is a rung in the ladder of evolution. Manis progressing consciously and unconsciously. But if he makes progress in eachincarnation consciously, then he is expediting his spiritual progress. Realisationwill take place much sooner for him than for those who are making progressunconsciously.
We know that we started our journey from the mineral life, and then enteredinto the plant life. Then we entered into the animal kingdom. From there we havecome into the human world. But here is not the end. We have to grow into divinebeings. Unless and until we have become divinised and transformed, God will notbe satisfied with us. He can manifest in us and through us only when we aretotally transformed and fully illumined. So when we think of our evolution—inner evolution and outer evolution—we get abundant joy. We lose nothing,nothing, in the so-called death.
Jalalu’d-din Rumi most beautifully and soulfully tells us about evolution:
A stone I died and rose again a plant,A plant I died and rose an animal;I died an animal and was born a man.Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
What is death after all? Death is a sleeping child. And what is life? Life is achild that is playing, singing and dancing at every moment before the Father.Death is the sleeping child inside the heart of the Inner Pilot. Life isinspiration. Life is aspiration. Life is realisation. Life is not the reasoning mind.Life is not the intellectual mind. Life is not a game of frustration. No. Life is themessage of divinity on earth. Life is God’s conscious channel to fulfil divinity inhumanity on earth.
There is much truth in Confucius’ saying, “We do not know life. How can weknow death?”
Now I wish to say that we can know life. If we realise life as God’s embodimentof Truth, Light, Peace and Bliss, then we know what life truly is, andrecognise death as nothing but a rest, one necessary at the present stage ofevolution.
There will come a time when rest will not be necessary at all. Only Life willreign supreme—the Life of the
Beyond, the Life of the ever-transcending Beyond.This Life is not and cannot be the sole monopoly of an individual, no. Eachhuman being is to be flooded with this Life of the ever-transcending Beyond, forit is here in this Life Divine that God will manifest Himself unreservedly—here,here on earth.
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