The Inkling of Death

One who remembers death, by God’s special succour, gets to know of it in advance, and prepares for it. Wise is he who remembers death often and prepares himself for the end.

One who is extremely sensitive about death, one who remembers death, often gets an inkling of death in advance, and prepares himself for it. This is a special form of succour granted by God to such a person.

To those who are oblivious of death, to those whose lives are unencumbered by any remembrance of death, the end comes all of a sudden, without any prior notice. Then death takes them away from this planet, where they were blessed with the life support system, to a place where there is no propitious life support system and from where their return is just not possible. Now, all of a sudden, they find that they have to live there in that inclement place forever.

They will call out, but there will be no one to rush to answer their call. They will open their eyes, but they will find no scenes worth seeing. They will weep and they will cry, but there will be no one to wipe their tears or to give them solace. They will want to flee from that place, but there will be no destination to which they can go. They will look towards their right, they will look towards their left. They will look towards their front, they will look towards their rear, but there will be no one present to help them, not even those they took to be their friends and companions in this world. They will suffer from hunger, but they will not find anything to eat. They will feel that they have left behind whatever they had in the world. Now in this new place, there is no possibility of making a new world for themselves.

This horrible state of affairs will be the fate of every man and woman. Every man and woman will finally reach a place from which there will be no possibility of return. Wise is he who in the matter of death becomes so sensitive that, even before death, he has a presentiment and then prepares himself for the end.