Everyone is A Traveller Towards Death

People are engaged in the celebration of life. Death ultimately ends all such celebrations.

Wise is one who regards the life before death as a temporary journey and devotes one’s full time to the preparation for the life after death in the next eternal world.

According to a news item in the Times of India of 9th October, 2008, the British TV star, Jade Goody, was at the peak of her professional career when all of a sudden in August 2008 just as she was preparing to appear in the Indian version of the British reality TV show Big Brother, she was diagnosed with an incurable illness, that is cervical cancer. She cancelled all her professional appointments saying that while most people planned their weddings, she had to plan her funeral. She said, “I want people to cry over me.”

This is the story of every man and woman. People are engaged in the celebration of life. But the ultimate end of all such celebrations is that death overtakes them before their completion and they are transferred from this world to the next world. Given this state of affairs, what every man and woman must do is to regard the span of life before death as a temporary journey and devote his or her full time to the preparation for the life after death.

People celebrate their birthdays, whereas each birthday is only an announcement that one year of one’s life has passed. In such a situation every passing year for every man and woman should serve as a reminder of death. While there is no certainty of one’s next birthday, the approach of death is certain. The wise man is one who never forgets this greatest of all realities known as death and prepares for life after death in the next eternal world.