Death being a mystery

These days time has not been very kind to me to pen down my thoughts. However, deep in my heart is a truth that I want to share with all of you.

When we wake up in the morning, most tend to look forward to the day and plan certain agendas. Some don't even bother and continue living life with the flow. However very few wake up thinking that the day that they had woke up too might be their last.

As we all know, death has always been following us ever since from birth. I like to call it my second shadow. Some are feared of it, some try living life without thinking of it and others walk recklessly towards it. Death is actually a mystery which is tried really hard to be explained in all religions. However, i don't think that any has successfully described this mystery as how can you tell that the mango is sweet without having tasted it. Well, now probably in your minds there might be only two questions. The first, what happens during and after death? The second, is this guy going to commit suicide or something???

Since the second question is easier to answer, I’ll start with saying NO because i don't have to search death as when the time is right, death will search me. As for the first question, i really don't know for sure but i feel that death is a painful process. Being humans, we tend to get attach to our surrounding forgetting that one day we will need to leave. Just imagine the chaotic feeling from being dumped by the girl you loved so much and now times that by 100 and that is probably the feeling you will feel during death. Why x100? Coz probably the person you love is not the only attachment that you would be leaving behind. Yikes that’s painful.

Well besides that, having watched my mom slowly past away, I noticed a strange behavior that she carried out on her dying bed. She kept uttering the word “Sorry ". I had long wondered why until lately when I had read a book written by a great saint that states "At the time of death, the doings of one throughout their whole life would be displayed in a flash in front of them". At this moment of time, the known and unknown mistakes we had made throughout life would become visible to us. Now, the act of being humble is the only act that would enable us realization of birth. Remember this, to ask forgiveness is a prayer, to forgive is divine. As for what happens after death, I seriously have no idea. However, I strongly believe that heaven and hell is merely mind states in everyone and only the right judgment can allow one to transcend this inner states. Hence to me, we should be the judge to all our actions and bare the responsibilities of the outcome of those actions. Keeping our creator as our guide, hopefully we would be reminded of our true purpose of life which is to attain self realization.

The above post might be a "perhaps" to most readers, however I would like to summarize by saying that life is a play and we are the actors of this play. Being mere actors we should try not to be attached to our temporary roles. We should strive to understand the purpose of our role and should never hurt anyone in our act. Basically we should live life like the wind, never attached to its environment. Let death continue being a mystery but make sure you don't fail to discover the mystery of the purpose of your life.