Thursday, October 30, 2008

Love of Life & Fear of Death


In today’s world, I observe people live their entire lives in loving it and fearing death. Loving life is not entirely wrong, but fearing death completely is lock, stock and barrel wrong. Life comes to a dead end one day but such realities are still hard for us to gulp down. The main reason for it is the weakness of faith.

The point to be brought from the back burner to point of focus is that death is a reality which is hard to accept and nobody desires it because we don’t want to leave the life of the world but that does not give one the privilege to avoid the preparation for it. For the prepared lot its tonic and for the unwary its toxin. Interestingly, the world at the moment is full of uncertainty and anxiety but still we love to live in this world despite of reaching close to saturation levels economically and generally. It’s the love of this materialistic world which makes one enjoy the wonders of this worldly life. But just imagine this world of uncertainty and anxiety is still so amazing to live in, just imagine how handsome is going to be the life hereafter where death doesn’t interrupt because its not allowed to, and death will do as commanded by its Creator as it doesn’t have the right for choice.

In the life hereafter, there will be no uncertainty and anxiety for eternity. Moreover, there won’t be short bursts of happiness; happiness is what will last for eternity. But, happiness after the end of mankind will have its duties reduced. It will go back to its resting place after spending a tough life at earth. It will spread smiles on the faces of those people who have devoted their worldly wise life for the pleasures of the heaven.

To get on the road to heaven, one has to live a life chock-full of purity. Importantly, one needs to pure oneself if one indulges in impurities. The detergent to achieve cleanliness is repentance. He, who repents for performing an evil deed and vows not to do it, gets forgiven by the Creator of all the Creation. So, a life which has meditated in state of sanity on earth will definitely taste the fruits of heaven. But, to reach heaven one has to cross a toll gate ghastly known as death.

This toll gate has got a huge countdown timer, which says ‘your times up, my time’s now’. At this stage of life or death, the subconscious mind goes through a conscious flashback. Additionally, the flashback highlights the good and evil deeds to make the traveler realize what is wrong and what was right. But, it doesn’t allow one to take a U-turn back to the world because it is also performing its duty on the basis of commands given by the One who gave us too but which most of us did not perform it well on earth. But, there is a weird and wonderful thing with this toll gate – for some it turns from ghastly to lovely. Those some are the ones who lived their lives with purity and in preparation of reaching at the gate with bagfuls of good deeds. Their purity becomes their shield which curtails and transforms the fear of nearing the toll gate of death into loveliness because pure souls see a life of leisure through the vertical and narrow openings of the gate.

We, the mankind are sent to the world on a journey where after tranquility arrives two paths. One leads to the evil way which gains hullabaloo for the mankind while one leads to the path of tranquility once again. After many such tasks we arrive at the toll gate mentioned above. For people who lived in tranquility, arrive fresh to enter through the door of happiness while the other group stands stun to see those realities which they frowned on stands real. The journey towards death starts at the time we are born, so, we should be thankful to the Creator for giving us the right to choose in which way we want to reach it.

But, this description of death at times is used for wicked purposes. It is worn on to the minds of the suicide bombers to create a brain-washing effect. Death is portrayed so fantastically that any soul would hug it by wearing the dreadful jacket. Such hypnotism brings disgrace to Death, and such disdain it doesn’t deserve. We should make most of our time in this world to mend our ways back to tranquility which will benefit us for perpetuity. As a result, when one hugs death intentionally, that person interrupts the journey leaving it in a state of incompleteness & this is what we don’t have a right to do. So let’s stop mocking death because it spreads its effects on other travelers.

To conclude, the foolishness of mocking death is like signing an agreement to do the forbidden at will and accepting to be hanged after a year.

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