When the person is dead, you remember that person. But when the person is alive, do you remember death? Who is not dying every moment? Please tell me. Then why do you want to believe that the person, as you see him right now, would be carried over to the future? No one gets carried over to the future. No one. Death has to be seen as a fact, not a fact at the end of a string, but as a present reality. It is not death that scares us. Unlived life is what we grieve for.
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Questioner: My name is Saniya, and I'm a final-year PhD student. So there is always an extent; I’ll talk about grief here. All of us have dealt with grief in some way or the other. We have lost our loved ones, right?
So, as an observer, who should not be participating in it, but then you always have an extent of feeling towards people whom you are losing. For example, if you lose a parent, the grief or the feeling of losing that person, even if you try to observe, “Okay, this is the hormones, this is what is happening, and eventually it will dilute, maybe or maybe not.” But to detach yourself from that situation and just be the observer, I think, it is the most difficult thing to do. And how do you start that? What is the beginning?
Acharya Prashant: You see, after the person is dead, you remember that person, right? But when the person is alive, do you remember death?
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