When Pandava’s reached Heaven someone asked Yudhishthra, he being the most lawful and wisest of all, ‘What is the strangest thing you find in the world?’ Yudhishthra’s answer was ‘Strangest thing I found in the world is that all the people on the Earth know that THEY are going to die one day. They see people dying before their very eyes and yet they live their life as if they are going to live forever.’
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Is it really strangest thing? Well, if we go in the complexities of the world and the way it is designed we may find many strange things in it. But do they affect all of us; I mean the whole of mankind? I guess no. But the answer provided by Yudhishthra does really concern us all. We have come a long way, since those old Mahabharata’s days.
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The world has changed since then in many ways and so does the people in it. But alongwith many facts that still exist, one most prominent one is Life and Death. People still die - and are dying in numerous numbers all over the world, many might have died within the time that I wrote this blog and posted it – and we are still ignoring the death. Everyday we see people dying around us. Our Morning starts with Newspaper and we find numerous news’s of people dying all over the world in many different ways and we keep moving from news to news as if those who have died existed in some strange place and we feel no concern. Some of us do feel for those who have died, but I guess, hardly any of us think about death in context of their own selves. Someone, unknown, dies before your very own and it surely affects you, we never forget the incident for most of our life, but all the memories meant for the ones who died, still we don’t think of our own death. Someone close to us dies; it impacts our life a great deal. We miss the person day and night and loneliness kills us. Some of us even wish to have died along with the person dead. But with time we learn to live and continue in the run and that person becomes a memory.
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So, the question that turns up is, are we really living as if we are never going to die? Many will say, what else we can do, should we stop doing our daily business and just sit still and keep waiting for our death. I don’t think that’s right too. How can it be, we get hungry so we need food; we need food so to buy it we need money and to earn money we need to work. That is very much true and is essential part of the life. Food, shelter, cloths … we all need them they are necessities, but are that all. Are we born to grow up, study, have job earn money, marry and have kid, grow old and die? Are these the only purposes of life? And that too we have to do again and again by coming into this world again and again. Is God some weird person, who has nothing to do so He created the world for time pass and put His souls into this world to be born and to die just like that? Or Did He had some plan for us. Is there something that we are supposed to do in our life time but are not aware of it? Or knowingly ignoring it? Very much possible. If that’s the case then answer of Yudhishthra really makes sense, our ignorance of death really is the strangest thing about the world.
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When I think that I am going to die one day I get no emotions out of me. It’s like I know it but don’t believe it as if that is never going to come. But I know it will come, as I believe that the day I was born, the day of my death was also fixed. But I don’t know about that day, so what? That isn’t going to help me, as it is approaching me with each passing day and one day its all going to end. I mean when I am dead, how does it matter for me if others will remain or not, my death will be the end of this name of mine in every sense and people will start to call me Late… afterwards. Will it make anyone think and contemplate about his own death and worry about it, atleast for some time? I don’t think so when I myself am not worried about my death then why somebody else will get worried about his by my death.. Is it a strangest think? I just wrote this post and in few minutes of travel toward my home, my mind will be cleared of all these thoughts but only to be occupied by something else. It’s all the fault of this wretched my mind, never let us alone, and its only death that provide us freedom from it and in that sense I love death.
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But the question still remains are we really fool to ignore our death and keep living as if our day is never going to come? Is there something else that we are meant to do? I don’t think that God created the world just like that and there ought to be something that we are designed to do. What is that? I wish God will let me know, before my rendezvous with my death.
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