A common notion about morals and propaganda for living a ‘fruitful’ life is unfurling in social media. Let us see few ways by which we can feel delighted while embracing our death. We have certain kinds of phobias. Those mental phenomena are due to the inbuilt character of the previous births. All kinds of fear germinate from the seed of fear of death. We need to overcome this.
We might have heard about a great Greek philosopher, Socrates. He was not merely a bookish philosopher, but an enlightened being. People of the province were against his notions and tried to imprison him. When he was imprisoned, people persuaded the jury to deliver the death sentence. Even, the disciples of Socrates lured the guards of the cell, but Socrates denied leaving the prison. He said that he was ready to embrace the magnificent moment, without bluffing the government. He was offered a goblet of poison. Before leaving the physical abode, he asked his disciples to inscribe about the immortality on his tomb, as he was just about to renounce clothing and was about to merge with divinity.
Many saints have renounced the physical abode as if embracing death. One of the grand examples is Parikshit Ji.
There is another parable.
Once there was a fisherman, who was sitting with his hook at the banks. Suddenly, a grand kite birdie appeared on the air, dived in the air, grabbed a lot in its beak as well as in its talons. It rejoiced to visualize its juicy supper and took a high flight. Seeing a lot in its clutches, a murder of crows began tracing it and quaking echoed in the atmosphere. The kite rushed to avoid the crows. But, the quaking grew exponentially. The kite could not bear the howling. It opened its beak wide and even loosened its clutches. The meat began falling. The crows left the kite, and rushed towards the meat, under gravity. The kite felt relieved and soared high above the clouds in bliss.
Though the story might appear tiny, Thakur Ji elucidated a wonderful correlation between the kite and the mortals. The kite resembles the humans. The lot includes the attachments to the physical body. The murder of crows shows the enormous collection of never-ending desires. If we remember the notion that we are neither the body nor the mind, we are the soul, we would let the meat-free from our futile clutches and the crows will run away. At present most of us are dead to God because we have chosen to be alive to the world. If we want to be true seekers of God, our choice must now be reversed. We must now choose to die to the world to begin living in God, and we must choose to live in God in order to die to the world. We cannot have one without the other.