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Death and Truth

 When you see a train of people going after a dead body to perform last ritual, you may feel sad that someone left. But what we fail to realize is one day we have to meet the same fate. 

I use to think that I will know the truth and truth will cure the death and people will be able to come back from deathbed. My all time favorite SAVITRI by Sri Aurobindo depicts how Savitri take back her dead husband. Longing for knowing truth with the help of Physics, Mathematics then turning face towards religious texts, nothing satisfied me. Arts and Law helped to understand human necessities and necessities to manage its activities. 

Yet what is death? I don't know my birth and by blessing of God I think I will not know my death too. Then this madness called Life, a mass packed with limitless desires running here and there for life, own life, and some evils running towards others life. I don't know why Poets said soul will not die, and soul being the ultimate that know or for which this body function but we see it dies. To say soul is ultimate may be not that tangible. 

Fortunately I came to realize that the only truth is Death, may not be easy to face though. All human efforts are to postpone it. Human can't eliminate death of their own forget about others. But the mother earth is so generous she gave power to postpone it to those who make use of earth intelligently. Like the Bhagavat said Mother Earth is the Cow, Brahmin milk 4 vedas out of it and so on. Just by being Sanyasi and waiting for death as it is the ultimate reality will not make human any good. It is the virtue for which we must strive and virtue is in fighting the death till last breath. All those who strive for postponing the death are called Civilized society and those who wait are just like animals. We may disagree with life but it is what it is in existence, rest are mere theories or madness. 

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