Life is the springboard to Unknown
In life’s arena the contenders are only two
Myself and death
Death is to know, I was not born
‘Moksha’ or ‘Nirvana’ or ‘Mukti’
is also to know, I was not born
When I see others die
I infer my own death too
Isn’t that how I have formed a conviction
that I live temporarily too?
Can anyone choose his body’s death?
Outwardly you perceive
The time and cause of body’s death
to be in many varied forms
Look, Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Vivekanand and so many other enlightened ones
Had a diseased body when they left this world
Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira also died differently
Then why worry
When and how my own death comes ?
Realize this fact
It matters not who I am now
Springboard to Unknown
I cannot choose
The time and form of my body’s death
Birth and death are two end-points
Can ‘one unborn’ now know what’s life after birth?
How can ‘one born’ now know what’s life after death?
Between birth and death
I am sure of one thing ‘I exist’
and this I is same from birth to now
That ‘I am’, I know
But what or who I am? — I don’t know
Why not find out?
Sleep and death both have a similarity
Both in sleep and death
One experiences no body and no world
Awakening from sleep, I take on the same body
Awakening from death, do I take on ‘New’ body?
Birth guarantees death
So why worry about the inevitable death
Do you know anything about ‘Life’?
Is my ‘existence’ just this life?
First focus on ‘Life’
And when ‘Life’ is Known
Life is the springboard to Unknown
In life’s arena the contenders are only two
Myself and death
Death is to know, I was not born
‘Moksha’ or ‘Nirvana’ or ‘Mukti’
is also to know, I was not born
When I see others die
I infer my own death too
Isn’t that how I have formed a conviction
that I live temporarily too?
Can anyone choose his body’s death?
Outwardly you perceive
The time and cause of body’s death
to be in many varied forms
Look, Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Vivekanand and so many other enlightened ones
Had a diseased body when they left this world
Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira also died differently
Then why worry
When and how my own death comes ?
Realize this fact
It matters not who I am now