The News of Death

Old age comes only to jolt man out of this moral lethargy and make him start his preparation for the final journey. He should then think about the afterlife, and plan his life after death.

There was a 75-year old man who had always enjoyed good health, but now he had fallen ill. This illness was in actual fact the news of approaching death but he imagined that with treatment, his health would improve. He began to approach different doctors and go to different hospitals. When he had spent all his money, he borrowed money for better and costlier treatment. But he failed to regain his health. Finally he succumbed to his illness. This is not the story of just one man, but all men and woman.

Old age comes to tell man that his end is near. Then when he becomes ill, this is to hammer home this point, to awaken him from his slumber. Thus old age, followed by ailments, comes only to jolt man out of this moral lethargy and make him start his preparation for the final journey. He should then think about the afterlife and plan his life after death.

But man does not learn any lessons from events. Old age and illness remind man of death. But instead of thinking about death, he thinks about treatment. He runs after doctors and goes to hospitals, finally to die one day in despair. Thus what he gets in return is not health but death. This is a fact of life which man sees daily around him. But no one derives any lesson from this. Everyone turns a blind eye to reality. It is only death which will open his eyes. But the opening of eyes after death will be of no avail to any man or woman.