Death is a point in time, right. That’s what you call the incidence of death. And life you call a stretch in time. Isn’t time an opportunity then, for change, real change? Time is anyway defined as change in space. Isn’t time also an opportunity for genuine change? Before time ends for the physical organism and the moment of death arrives. Isn’t time an opportunity to move into the timeless? And if one hasn’t done that before his physical death. Hasn’t he just wasted his life?
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, what is the purpose of life if death comes and the body is born again and again?
Acharya Prashant: When do worries exist?
Questioner: When you are scared.
Acharya Prashant: When you are still alive, breathing, and bodily. Right? And that’s how we are born, worried, afraid, insecure. If you take Biology as nature, then it is natural to suffer. But those who have known have told us that Biology is not what you call natural. The word ‘natural’ as used commonly in the English language is misplaced. If you go to Sanskrit, Sanskrit will say this physical nature, this biological nature is Prakṛti, and true nature is Swabhaba. The English language unfortunately has only one word, ‘nature’. So, it gets very confusing. You start calling the body as natural, the body is not natural, the body is merely Prakṛatik. Nature is something else, nature is not perceivable, nature is empty and very full of joy only.
