Death- A Triumph






It is always a pleasure to revisit old novels by our favorite author, with fragrance of old yellow pages, memories recalling emotions of reading it for first time with Oxford dictionary and now reading it again with some experience gained. I reached the page which changed my perspective on ‘Death’. What emotion does this word evokes in you? Anxiety, Terror, Sorrow or Peace?
Paulo Coelho has written in his international best seller book- The Pilgrimage-

‘Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with awareness of death, they would be able to even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose-for death is inevitable .’   

He also mentioned that the fear of that is not death but the ‘reason for death’. A person is more concerned about how he will die than the fact that he will die. I wish a man concentrates on life between birth and death and embellish it with dreams, good deeds and humanity to make it worth dying. I remember once my spiritual Guru (Shri Devakinandan Thakurji), while preaching Bhagwad said, ‘we take certain number of breaths in our lifetime, but aren’t aware of the count, as it is insignificant, but two of them are significant- the first breath when we were born as human, and the last which is yet to come. But we don’t know which will be our last breath, so why can’t we treat all of them as significant as the last one and nurture it with wisdom, learning and humanity and die as a man. ’

I saw a funeral passing by on my way to office, a young Hindu lady tucked in red saree, four men carrying her funeral pyre. ‘Seems to be a poor woman, might have died from some disease,’ said cab driver. ‘Yeah! May the soul rest in peace!’, I prayed. ‘What peace madam, look how young she was, she was yet to see the world, ’I found him a bit restless and emotional. ‘She has seen more than us, she knows the truth now, she’s dead,’ I said.  Cab driver gave a strange look, ‘death is sad,’ he said.

Maybe he’s right, death is sad.It is sad for those who are alive, it is sad for the husband who hesitated to confess his love on several occasion. It is sad for children who took parents for granted, it is sad for parents to see their children die before them. It is not sad for the one who died. As that soul is resting in peace now, with no regrets.
    
Krishna preached about death in Bhagwad Gita (chapter 2) to Arjuna that death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Enjoy your journey to make your destination more beautiful!

Set my body on fire or bury in your graveyard,
Or cut it into pieces, feed vultures and fishes.
Soul’s purpose was to bring that smile on your face,
Make this world beautiful, that’s all humanity preaches!

                                                                           
                                                                      ~Arpita




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