There
is a line in the movie gladiator - now improperly attributed to the
real life Marcus Aurelius in countless memes—
“death smiles at every man, and all a man can do is smile back.”
there is only one ultimate truth in this world and that is death. it will happen one day. whoever get birth, must die one day.
every religion has different explanation for death. like Hindu dharma says, that we just possess the body, but the soul is eternal, it will neither get birth nor die. it just changes the body like we change clothes. so, we should not worry about death, we just have to focus on our karma, we should just enjoy the journey between birth and death. this life is given to us just to enjoy the time on this planet with the given body and do right karma.
the
writer of the bestselling book the outsider, Wolfgang Borchert writes a very interesting fact about death:
a man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. and even they quickly disappear. and when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. and that's all.
you can test, recall you
grandfather, then your grandfather’s grandfather, i think you don't remember if
you are not from any kingdom family or not from any celebrity family.
on this earth, out
existence is only till we are alive, if we are a normal person, not any
celebrity in any region. then why to think about other, about what other will
say or think about your action or inaction.
William Shakespeare,
the re-known poet,
playwright and actor wrote about death:
cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.
it's true, we afraid of
doing many things in our life that we want to do. one aspect of it is, we are
sacrificing the desires that we want, for the sake of avoiding the
problems in the future. in one way we are killing our actual desires and
without desires we are not more than a dead person. the courageous person
does what he wants to do, he faces problems and solve them and enjoy the life
and then at the end like everyone he dies but he doesn’t have any desires left,
that he regret. to explain the above argument, read the below quote, it will
help to clarify the fear of death resides in us:
death is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where. --John Dryden
the best lines, on life
and death is by the poet Bhartrhari in "against the desire of worldly
things":
morn after morn dispels the dark, bearing our lives away; absorbed in cares we fail to mark how swift our years decay; some maddening draught hath drugged our souls, in love with vital breath, which still the same sad chart unrolls, birth, eld, disease, and death............
god satisfies the snake with air, grass to the cows is food and bed, man's nobler soul is clogged with care, struggling to gain his daily bread..............
i have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me, i have not chosen pain, but pain hath been my lot, some men make time their fool, but here time's fool you see, i've long been dead to joy but passion dieth not............
insults i've borne, but not with patient mind, pleasures forborne, to which my heart inclined; put up with hunger, nakedness, and cold, not for the love of god, but love of god; thought much on wealth, but not on siva's feet, and broke my slumbers not to pray, but cheat; i've lived a hermit's life without his creed, made earth a hell, but gained no heavenly meed.............
wrinkles deform my face, and hoary hairs my head, withered my youthful grace, but avarice blooms instead. the joys of sense will vanish soon, what do we gain thereby? those only store up merit who in all themselves deny; when pleasures flee, they leave behind a never-ending smart, but he who hurls them from him fills with heavenly peace his heart. as knowledge grows, content expands, and fell desire abates; but worldly joys, if long embraced, a baneful influence gain; thus indra, like a mortal king, hopes, trembles, loves, and hates, from having held through endless years an undisputed reign.
the above poem is full
of wisdom on life and death.
death is the natural
part of your life, so instead of getting afraid from death, embrace it and
enjoy the life. do the things that you really want to do. keep learning, keep
exploring, keep experiencing the life, keep reading and keep writing.
-thanks
Mahesh
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