Consciousness of Death
Can Change Our Life

If a person remembers his own death, it becomes a means to demolish his worldly aspirations. After that, for him no aspiration remains an aspiration. The material things that people get excited about will no longer give him any pleasure.

Awareness of the reality of death reminds us that we will have to face a day when suddenly everything will totally change. We may be in our home, enjoying ourselves with our family. Or, we may be among our friends or with colleagues at work. All of a sudden, the angel of death will arrive. Then, tossing away our body like the skin of some discarded fruit, he will take our soul to another world. Those whom we spent years amidst—our family, friends and colleagues—will know nothing about where we have gone.

Awareness of death makes a person very serious about life. His biggest concern is now to seek answers to existential questions such as, “Who am I?”, “What am I?”, “What is life?”, “How should I live?”, “What is death?”, “What will happen to me after I die?”, and so on.

Awareness of death makes a person more serious about the affairs of life. It leads him to engage in constant introspection and self-reform.

Death very clearly tells a person that although ostensibly his present is in his control, his future definitely is not. Awareness of death makes us take our future in the life after death much more seriously. It leads us to spend our short time on this planet wisely, in a manner that will benefit us in the eternal life after death, instead of wasting our life in chasing sense-pleasures.