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Dear friends

Death is one of the sanskar

in life, and success of life is a relaxation death. In India, equivalent to old age homes, Varanasi was a ‘death city’ also called in diplomatic and

polite manner a place where whosoever dies gets Moxa.

The company of people in last leg of life needs spiritual solitude,

understanding, and knowledge, instead of the ventilators, drugs and money game

of hospitals.

 

As we are getting industrialized, our

sensitiveness is reducing, and diseases are caused by unnatural lifestyles. Industrial

deaths have ‘heart attract’ on the top, ‘cancer’ in

second place. In USA, Russia, Europe, cancer is increasing due to use of tobacco, obesity (rotten food

habits), and work related pollution. Death should be a personal right and

people should be at least free to die. Palliative health care that needs morphine

should be accessible and pain should be relived at death. Death of Aldus Huxley

should be a standard.

 

Regards

K G Misra

 

 

 

On Behalf Of Jagannath Chatterjee

Friday, September 22, 2006

9:16 PM

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healthg; divine-nature ; spiritually_speaking

[HealthyIndia] On death

and the need to prepare for it.

 

 

Dear _____,

 

 

 

 

 

Why do you fear death? Death is nothing to be afraid

of. Of course we lose contact with our near and dear ones. But that happens in

life also as we move away from our friends and relatives. We may feel sad

for some days but we always recover.

 

 

 

 

 

Every day we die. Yes, what is sleep? Is it not a form

of death? But then are we afraid of sleep? We all know that we cannot do

without sleep. It helps us refresh ourselves for the next day and also helps us

forget many unpleasant things. Similiarly death delivers us from great pain

when our bodies become old and diseased. It also delivers us from the burdens

of our present life and gives us a fresh start. Without death life would become

extremely horrible and painful. Death is necessary.

 

 

 

 

 

People who have faith in God and apply His teachings

in life have absolutely nothing to fear from death. Such people are taken to

the highest realms after death and often do not have to take another birth.

Repeating Gods name and remembering Him at all times burns our samskaras and

without samskaras we cannot have another birth.

 

 

 

 

 

How to prepare ourselves for death? The first step is

that we must realise that death is inevitable, every living being has to die.

The second step is to meditate on death. We must think of death at times and

realise that one day we must leave everything and go away. Thinking in this

manner will take away all our undue attachments and prepare ourselves for the

ultimate journey. Sincere Buddhist monks live as if the very

next moment may be their last. So they don't get attached to anything and

are always mentally prepared to let go of everything. They realise that

everything in this world including all relationships are impermanent. What only

matters is the ultimate truth, what we call God.

 

 

 

 

 

So cultivate renunciation and detachment. Do your work

but don't unnecessarily get mentally involved in anything. Never think that

anybody else will not survive if you are not around. We see so many people die

everyday but does the world stop after they are gone? The world will go on

smoothly regardless of whether we are alive or dead.

 

 

 

 

 

So never think that we have to complete some work

before going. We will definitely try to do everything properly while we are

alive but if we have to go without completing the work well and good, somebody

else will complete it, we should not worry. Many people die painful deaths

thinking what will happen to their near and dear ones after they are gone or

who will complete their work. But all these thoughts are unnecessary. God is

running this world and not us. Live every moment prepared to leave everything

and go. If you can do this you have prepared yourself for death.

 

 

A small child one day asked his mother why death was

so painful. His mother said that death was not painful at all. The surprised

child asked how. The mother asked him to sit in a chair and hold the handles

extremely tightly. She then tried to lift the child from the chair. It was an

extremely painful experience for the child who cried a lot. Next the mother asked

the child to sit in the chair but not hold the handles. Now she was able to

lift him easily without having to hurt him.

 

 

 

 

 

Almost all of us are like the child holding tight to

the handles of life. That is why death is so painful for us. But to those who

live the life but don't clutch the handles, death is just going from one plane

of existence to another. There is absolutely no pain.

 

 

 

 

 

So don't cling on to life. Enjoy life as if you have

come on a vacation here. When you go for a vacation to a beautiful place you

enjoy the experience immensely. But you are not very sorry when you have to

come back. This is because all throughout the vacation you knew that you have

come only for a few days. You also know that your real place is at home where

you are returning. So during life also remember always that this vacation is

also for a few days. We all have to return home to Gods feet.

 

 

 

 

 

Send letters to God regularly in the form of prayers.

Then when you face death you will find that God is waiting for you

with a smiling face ready to take you home, where you really belong.

 

 

 

 

 

So never fear death. Prepare for it!

 

 

 

 

 

God bless you,

 

 

Jagannath.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life

but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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