Man is born and dies. We all know one who is born will die one day. One is born to write an obituary of his life. An ode to your life is read out after your death. Humanity has constantly been read out obituaries of the dead ones. Therefore, one is sad that one will die. One knows death comes. In fact, one believes that death will come. It is said that man lives like he will never die and dies like he never lived.
Life and death are eternal. But death is the most fearful. The ferocity of death is the ultimate fear of humanity. This has bred neurosis which is the mother of all neurosis.
Humanity says never die. But those who had never died died. Those who would not die died. Those who would never die died. Those who never lived also died. Those who lived also died. Those who never thought that they would die died. Those because of who millions died also died. Those who had all power and wealth of humanity to live died. Those who had nothing died.
Is death your future because death is in the future. Death is the future sense of life. In fact, death will not kill you ever. Your life will simply end. That what you call death is a mere word meaning departure.
But man is sad. He continues to be sad all his life because of the word ‘death’. Man thinks of death and becomes sad. A death in the future makes you full of sorrow. That makes one live like one is writing his own obituary. Like he is carrying the cross of life to be crucified. You can also presume that man has to walk up to his death. Yet no one knows the point of death.
We are sad because we don’t have enough. Not having enough is the artificial poverty created by you that is making you miserable right now. We are not happy with the world we live in. We want more than what we have. Today we have this life, we would lose it. You don’t know how when and what you will lose. So today the life that you have is the life that you have. Death is something that you never have.
You want to possess things that make it harder to lose them. Life is something that you have, and death is something you don’t have. If death will come it will come in a moment. Before that, you won’t be dead. Before that, you will be living. All you have in your hands is life. When you will die you will simply die. Your obituary will be read out. Your possessions will be taken away. And you will be reduced to a photo frame and an obituary.
In fact, there is no death. Death has not happened as yet. How do we know that one will die? You wish to cry for your death before you are dead. Why be sorrowful now? Or you could dance up to the death. The choice is yours. You are not dead. If you are not dancing to the exuberance of life then you are living your death right now. Fear of death is death itself.
Life is here. Without life, we are not there. You always have life in your hands. You fear that you will die which makes you miserable. You don’t have death in your hands. You only have life in your hands to live. You can either live it full of fear or simply live it without fear and full of ecstasy.
But you think this body is your life. So you worry about losing your body. You think that you will die when the body is dead. In fact, this body that you call your life is already dead. This body comes from matter that is already dead. You are living in this dead body. And you have created great possession of your body. In fact, you are possessing your body the way you possess wealth. As if this body is your life. When you disembody this body that incidence you call death.
Death happens to a body that is already dead. You depart the body. But we know only the body. We are merchants of leather. You don’t die you never die. We are the sons of eternity. Therefore, Hindus say that we are sons of amrita (immortal). When you who is a son of an immortal depart the body the mortality takes over the body. So matter goes back into matter.
Why one should fear death. So the fear that makes you fearful of death creates God. Then you will pray to God to give you long life to make you live longer. You think God will be pleased to shower new term or extension.
God has given you just a moment of life. A lifetime of life is just a moment of life. Life is lived in a moment. You may live life by turning this moment into eternity. Or else you may keep praying to God for an extension of another term. You need extensions because you don’t live but you want to possess life. Life is not the possession of life.
If you possess life tightly you won’t be able to live life. Be one with the colours of life. You are existence. That which is dead, you resuscitate it. You bring it to life. This body is mainly made of water, air and earth. Like a bubble. Either you cut it or burn it or bury it. Water goes into the water, air goes into the air. Dead matter is already dead. You resurrected the dead matter and the body is formed. That means that body is only the form, a hologram, a photo frame, and in confluence with you it resurrects.
The body has to die. When you embody, the body it is formed. You will disembody the body will be destroyed. You have embodied this body to live and you live this body. You have not embodied it for dying. Therefore, stop dying many times a day in fear of death. Death is merely a belief that you are holding on to. When you begin to live your belief in death disappears.
Begin your new life. You already have a life in your hands. Start living your life. Start living your life in the now-ness of your being. Don’t again get into the trap of the future. Don’t start making new plans for the future. Instead of living, you keep on planning about life. This life is for living not to make plans for living. If you want to plan just make a little plan and live it up. If you make your plans so long then fear will be bred that death will destroy your plans.
Don’t turn your life into a plan. Life is not a plan. Life is already begotten. Don’t turn life into a plan. To plan the plan of life is the suspension of your life to tomorrow. Ego says not today but tomorrow. Not this but that. When you disembody your ego dies. The whole life wealth that you ran madly after disappears from your possessions. Then priests ask us to run after the Gods instead because that which you won’t get in this fleeting world you can get in heaven like permanent wealth and immortality. You are already immortal. This life is heaven. You are already in heaven. You have created hell out of it.
The author is a spiritual teacher. He can be reached at arunavlokitta@gmail.com
Begin your new life. You already have a life in your hands. Start living your life. Start living your life in the now-ness of your being. Don’t again get into the trap of the future. Don’t start making new plans for the future.
