Continued From The Second Part
Fear of Death
From the beginning of the world till today men were born, they were dead, our fathers were born, some of them are dead and some of them are enroute to quit. We are born. We will die one day, yielding place for our children. This is the pilgrimage which every one knows. Our forefathers become the fertilizers for the fruits which we eat and the day will come when we will be the fertilizers for the fruits that our children will eat. This caravan of life goes on forever.
No one can stop it. One may not very much like to die but in time a hopeful dawn will prove treacherous, being followed by the parting day - to be away from the lovely home, the only wife, the only loving son, the pomp and dignity, name and fame, the thing he gathered working twenty four hours of each day and thirty days of each month and twelve months of each year of his whole life-time, by means foul and fair.
Suppose there had been no death and only birth. Indeed a tragedy! There would have been no space available on the earth to live in.
An increase of only a few crores of people has become the headache of the Government. It is a good Law of Nature that brings "death" whether we desire it or not.
When we agree that it is a good law of nature that death must come, then, why should we have fear for death ? It is because we lack correct knowledge of our real nature; unintelligibly we have wrong relationship with the objects of the world, the relationship that we call 'Attachment'.
To Be Continued
About the author
swami chinmayananda
swami chinmayananda the great master's lectures were an outpour of wisdom. He introduced the Geetha Gnana Yagna. He wrote a lot of books on spirituality, commentaries to Vedantic texts, children books etc. He then started spreading His teachings globally.....
Fear of Death
From the beginning of the world till today men were born, they were dead, our fathers were born, some of them are dead and some of them are enroute to quit. We are born. We will die one day, yielding place for our children. This is the pilgrimage which every one knows. Our forefathers become the fertilizers for the fruits which we eat and the day will come when we will be the fertilizers for the fruits that our children will eat. This caravan of life goes on forever.
No one can stop it. One may not very much like to die but in time a hopeful dawn will prove treacherous, being followed by the parting day - to be away from the lovely home, the only wife, the only loving son, the pomp and dignity, name and fame, the thing he gathered working twenty four hours of each day and thirty days of each month and twelve months of each year of his whole life-time, by means foul and fair.
Suppose there had been no death and only birth. Indeed a tragedy! There would have been no space available on the earth to live in.
An increase of only a few crores of people has become the headache of the Government. It is a good Law of Nature that brings "death" whether we desire it or not.
When we agree that it is a good law of nature that death must come, then, why should we have fear for death ? It is because we lack correct knowledge of our real nature; unintelligibly we have wrong relationship with the objects of the world, the relationship that we call 'Attachment'.
To Be Continued
About the author
swami chinmayananda
swami chinmayananda the great master's lectures were an outpour of wisdom. He introduced the Geetha Gnana Yagna. He wrote a lot of books on spirituality, commentaries to Vedantic texts, children books etc. He then started spreading His teachings globally.....
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