SOME THOUGHTS ON IMMORTALITY AND DEATH----- 6

July 5, 2009

Hari OM.

So far I have shared some of my thoughts on IMMORTALITY. It is now time to share my understanding of Death.

Death is a crucial process in the continuation, evolution and sublimation of life. Death does not occur merely to end a phase of existence haphazardly, or end a life wantonly. Death is goverened by its own law. Death takes us closer to fulfilling our ultimate goal. Far from terminating the essence of life, or the individuality,or the Consciousness within, death offers new births, new vehicles or bodies or instruments ,new opportunities and new vitality to transcend our unfulfilled potential and enable the individuality to rise higher and to reach ever closer to the fulfilment of the ultimate goal of the evolutionary cycles,viz., attaining oneness with God. The death of one becomes the birth of another. Thus is the universe born. Death is not an end in itself; death leads to a new beginning. Death and birth, birth and death, one can not be without the other unless one has attained

IMMORTALITY in this life itself. They say that death is a boon to the tired, to the old and the suffering, to the one who has no more experiences to undergo in this life, and to the one whose Karma is totally exhausted and has nothing left to work out in this birth. Death is never indiscriminate or blind. It comes unerringly to the right person, and only when it must. We often fail to understand its sense of justice on account of our own ignorance. Death is a great equaliser. Rich or poor, young or old, we all depart from life obeying the same law and the same pattern. There is no fear of death when we have no attachments, when we accept life and its situations, when we surrender to the Divine Plan, when we learn to live in the present and in short, when we have understood life. When we abide firmly in such an attitude towards life we can be said to have have conquered Death.

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian