When it comes to death, we think so much about divine intervention, as if there is some conscious entity at work with a deliberate plan. Just realize that life doesn’t follow our plan or any divine plan. We come and go, just as waves rise and fall in the ocean. There is no rhyme or reason to it. We die just as we come—randomly. Nobody is doing it. It’s hard to swallow, but if we can acknowledge this, it would set us free.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya ji, my name is Sangeeta, and I’m from the USA. My question is regarding my mother’s sudden death. She and my father, eighty years old and eighty-six years old, went to Kufri, Shimla, last year for a vacation. And as soon as they reached there, late in the evening, my mother, she suffered some breathing problems. And before she reached the hospital, she lost her life.
It was all of a sudden, and she had no other medical history of any diseases. What we are coping right now, is this sudden death and the grief that I’m going through.
I want to ask a question — Is her sudden death a destiny, her karma, or something else? Because we read in the scriptures that there is always like a divine intervention that could have happened, and saved her life, and given her an oxygen cylinder, or restored her to the hospital on time.
So, is there something called a divine destiny, divine intervention, or is this just destiny, and we have to accept it? That’s my question, Acharya ji.
