Fear of Death

Generally what do we fear? 

We fear that we will die someday – which is, in any case – inevitable!

With death, we don’t know where ‘we’ go, so we can’t ‘prepare’ in advance for anything!

With death, we will not know who will ‘remember’ us, but should we be really concerned?

With death, all that has mattered to us so far, will dissolve – and we don’t know how that will feel to us.

Death is unpredictable – we plan so much all our lives, in anticipation for creating a scenario that we ‘invite’ Death (or Greet Him so to say, with open arms) – but hey, Death is not yours to obey!

Thus, Death can reveal our own vulnerable selves to ‘us’ and the people we leave behind.

I think, that the idea of ‘life’ is a series of experiences that are born out of residing in a ‘finite’ body and a ‘finite’ time frame – it is a matter of perception of living a human life. 

At its core, life/ consciousness/ Energy is unpredictable – and changing and fluid and erupting and cyclic (in its patterns of birth and death). This realization is very hard to digest for our ‘finite’ existence. The idea that life is always going to be there – before us and after us – can’t be digested so easily – because it throws our ideas of ‘individual’ self out of the window. What we consider as ‘individual’ is a ‘relative’ concept based on a given body and time. We are required to come to terms with the idea that body and time change eventually – there is nothing we can hold (and there is nothing we should hold). 

If that is true, then what the hell are ‘we’ doing ‘here’ anyway? Personally, I don’t feel like finding answer to this question, because that raises serious doubts over my own existence! Many great souls have transcended this limited notion of existence – to eventually term it as “illusionary” (Maya – in Sanskrit/ Marathi/ Hindi). 

Summarily, we seem to deal with two notions that interplay with one another – all that we perceive as Existing (may be termed as “Manifested”) and all that is Unmanifested (which always manifests into something).

Our limited ability seeks to find meaning to the Unmanifested Force – but we can’t and we do not so easily accept that something like this can exist without any reason or purpose! But it does exist and THAT is our core of the being! Accepting this notion, we finally accept our selves the way we are and hopefully, the fear of Death diminishes.