The sword is hanging over everybody’s head. It can fall here or there. Nobody is conspiring against anybody, and nobody has been blessed with special fortune. There is a random chance it falls here; it falls there. I am not talking of cases in which, let’s say, the family atmosphere is so toxic that it compels a couple of members to commit suicide. I am not talking of such cases. I am talking of accidental deaths. Accidental deaths are exactly that: accidents.
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Questioner: One of my friends, she is young, she is quite young, seventeen-eighteen years old; I met her somewhere in Rishikesh some five years back. She had a very, I don’t know, it looks like serendipity. She lost her brother, and then the next year, she lost another aunt’s son. Like this, she lost her aunt; then she lost another aunt.
In the last 10 years, she told me today, 'Please ask this from Acharya ji. She has lost around seven to eight of her familiar lines like people you know— all brothers and all aunts eradicated from the face of the earth. She was asking me what the cause was.' And I wanted to understand the deeper meaning of this pattern, like I mean, how do you explain such phenomena?
Acharya Prashant: There is no deeper meaning. The meaning is obvious. The meaning is the same as it is to the rest of us. Life is death. Death is there in front of us all the time. It’s a matter of chance, the unfortunate chance that it struck a particular family in this way. There is no deeper significance contained in this. It can happen with me tomorrow, with you tomorrow, and acting as if it is an especially wild kind of misfortune is to be naive.
