Death is already happening moment by moment. Why think that it is there somewhere in the future? We are all going in the same direction: a journey towards death. You cry not at the fact that somebody died, but at the fact that life was not lived fully. We have had a mystic who said that death should be celebrated. When everything about this man was joyful, how can his death be painful? There would be no reason to cry; death can be celebrated.
This summary is AI-generated. Please read the full article for complete understanding.
Acharya Prashant: When it becomes absolutely clear to you, that death is a fact and nobody can avoid it, that it is there, no point thinking about it, no point analyzing. It is there, right in front. Then death is no more an object to think about. When death is settled, then you can talk about life.
Till the point you are somehow trying to fight death, you will keep on being busy with death. And in being busy with death, you will keep on missing life. What is a bigger loss? That you didn't think enough about death, or that you didn't live deeply enough? What is a bigger loss? But we think that we must think. And think about what? Death, the unthinkable. Every second that you are spending in thinking about death is a second lost from life, living.
You know, when you're asking that there are so many things, and what is it that needs to be done, I'm reminded of the time when Mahatma Gandhi returned from South Africa to India. And he had been in South Africa at the center of a civil movement for quite a while, almost two decades, more than two decades. In between, he had kept coming to India to attend Congress sessions and to visit these things, but there was not much depth in those visits.
