Saturday, November 17, 2007

What is...will not be

That is the true nature of our Universe. What is ...will one day not be. This law applies to all the constituents of the Universe. Everything changes form, it has to change form. The bright Sun we see today, will become cold and die away thousands of years from now. Stars die and so do living creatures. Chal (moving, free) beings die; achal (fixed) things such as trees, earth and mountains too die. Dying here refers to ceasing to exist in the same form. If all the things in the world are changing constantly or dying, then why are we human beings so scared of death? Or is it that over thousands of years, the religious gurus have instilled a fear of death in our minds. They have created a non-ending business out of death. Is death something to be really feared? Or is it just a natural process or a change? Is there anything after death? Another life...a heaven...a hell ??? The religious pandas have created many rituals after death which innocent people keep following. Out of the fear that something will happen. There are no religious rituals done when an animal or a tree dies? The why has human death been turned into such a big business? And a perennial one too. According to Hindu philosophy, the human body is made up of Panchtatv (Earth, Fire, Water, Space and Air). Our mortal remains go back to the Panchtatv. Nothing remains after death. It is a full stop. Human death is as natural a process as the death of any other being in the Universe. Accepting death as a natural process or transformation from one form to another, frees our mind of fear.