Death comes to teach us. Let's learn the lesson. Death is a liberator — not so much to the one who has died, but to the one who is still alive. Your normal work, relationships, worldview — all these will appear hollow when you're struck by the fragility of everything. Death disturbs us precisely because it challenges the assumptions on which we base our day-to-day life. Once you have seen something, you cannot be the same ignorant mind.
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Questioner: Namaskar sir. Over the last three years, I was twice in the cremation ground. I was conducting the funeral of my mother and then my father after two years. So during that time, the gravity of the immortality of the soul and everything, was definitely there. And these verses and your teachings, they gave me a different outlook. I did not continue to look at the concept as "my father or my mother are immortal in the soul form." Now the conception has changed.
But as time has passed, there are two things that I see in my day-to-day life. Those of us who continue living — parts who are members of the family — we feel a very intense sense of everything being very mundane and a very strong sense of empathy and indifference towards things. And I also feel it in my work, even though I changed my line of work, tried to align it more with a good work or right work. It's in the field of disaster resilient infrastructure these days. But I'm not able to charge the work itself with a sense of, with a very strong sense of purpose. So that's one. And I seek psychotherapy also, but there they treat it as a very normal thing in the aftermath of bereavement. So they're like, this is very natural. This happens to most of us.
And the second thing was, as I pay more attention to your teachings, I also feel that in day-to-day dealings, especially in work, in the outside world, we have to challenge our learned ways of dealing with things. And there are a lot of disruptions start coming, and it seems like if we are disturbing the patterns too much or lessons that we learned about what the right personality should be, what is considered impressive, effective, efficient, all those things. So, is this also expected on this path?
