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Life and Death
The combination of elements and the movement of breath inside the human body is called life. All the animated being with physical bodies are living in this way. Therefore there is always a fear of death in this life.
If we peep on the deeper level, then the demand is for life but there is a fear of death. The more the yearning for life, more will be fear of death. If the life is insipid, body is weak and there is nothing else except illness and grief, even then a person desires to live. The desire for life is very deep and powerful. Until and unless a person gets a thing superior to life, this desire remains and also death keep him frightened.
From the time immemorial man has been trying to find a thing by which death may not come and he may live forever. The whole energy of life was being spent on this research, so that he may live for a very long time. The whole life was spent on the desire for living. The great yogis and ascetics also embarked on the means to get life extended. Rich people by taking calx, remained busy to keep the weak body alive.
Everybody has tried to have a long life. But nobody has worried to make the life successful and to know the purpose of life. Everybody continued trying to keep away death out of life.
Universal Guru, Guru Nanak Dev ji placed a great experience before the world that if death is welcomed with open arms, then with the elimination of the fear of death, man will get a supreme life.
First, accept death, and give up any hope of life.
Become the dust of the feet of all,
and then, you may come to me.1.
{SGGS, p 1102}
According to the Gurbani, Human life is a material, an opportunity, and one very precious jewel. However a foolish mind is wasting it in the soil. He is losing an opportunity from his hand and selling the jewel in exchange for cowrie.
The foolish moral wastes this precious human life.
This is your chance to meet the Lord of the Universe.
Human life is such a precious jewel,
but it is being lost in exchange for a mere shell.1.
{SGGS, p156}
It is said that sleep and death are alike. When a person is in a sound sleep, then his connection with his family and the world breaks. Due to death also, relations break. But when sleep comes, a person does not grieve, and weeps on the arrival of death. With the arrival of sleep, this thought is present that after waking up relation will be restored. But with the death when relation is once broken, then it remains so.
The joy and splendour in the life is due to mother, father, brother, sister, wife and children and wealth and material things.
Relatives are required for security.
Wealth is required to make both ends meet and material things are for enjoyment.
When God looks like a family and relative, then man goes upto a level higher than that of family. On finding the wealth of Naam (God's Name), gold looks like a glass. When divine Naam is received, then every material thing appears tasteless.
You are my Father, and You are my Mother.
You are my Relative, and You are my Brother.
{SGGS, p 103}
One who has obtained the treasure of the Naam.
prays Nanak, his treasure-house is filled to overflowing.
{SGGS, p385}
Nanak begs for the treasure of the Naam,
the Name of the Lord.
{SGGS, p 394}
If such a family, wealth and material is discovered, then a person becomes fearless and desire for life ends.
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