Keeping Away from
Preoccupations Temporarily

People have knowledge of death, but they don’t have conscious awareness or realization of it. They know that there is something called death, but they haven’t discovered it at the level of conviction. It is because of this that people live as if death is something that will never happen to them.

Death is the most terrifying thing that can happen in a person’s life. If people realize this truth at a conscious level, their entire focus will change. They will be conscious about living in such a way that they can be successful in the life that follows death.

What is the reason for the general heedlessness about death? The reason for this is that in this world, a person faces, at every moment, different sorts of conditions and situations. These conditions and situations keep him constantly occupied. His life becomes a distracted one. On account of this, a person doesn’t make space to think about death. Thinking about death is possible only for someone who saves himself from distractions. But because most people do not do this, their heedlessness with regard to death never ceases.

An individual’s heedlessness with regard to death comes to an end only when the angel of death appears and stands in front of him, when other than this angel he can see nothing. This busy life of people makes death seem some far-off news. A person’s own death doesn’t become something of concern for him. Hence, he is totally unprepared to face it when it happens.

The solution to this problem is to keep oneself free from occupations and preoccupations for a while every now and then and to spend time on thinking about death. One should also study scriptural references to death. Other than this, there is nothing that will make us understand the reality of death.