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1		DEATH	The greatest of all challenges to human emotion, intellect and religiosity, is the incomprehensible enigma of 'DEATH'. It also goes without having to specially mention that, the modern science is also totally baffled by the inevitable universal happening of DEATH. All remarkable breakthroughs in medical science are only to postpone death, nothing could yet conquer death and escape for ever! Humankind is perhaps the only creature that 'Knows' very starkly about its own impending end, by way of death. This is the only creature, which also undertakes an elaborate procedures to dispose the dead and deals with the dead body with a heightened sensitivity. Behind all human daredevil acts and postures of bravado, there is a lurking fear and deep revulsion about the inevitability of one's own death. Though human beings have the intelligence to objectively observe death all around, subjectively we are not able to reconcile that one has to surely die and more so that there is going to be an END for the "person in us". All of us pine for our sense of individuality to continue ad infinitum. More we entertain this desire as a longing, more the phenomenon of DEATH becomes hard and heavy on us! Thus, a SEER had mentioned appropriately that, "The whole learning orientation in one's life time should be, as to, how to be ready for death with no resistance whatsoever." But, this does not mean that one should turn morbidly pessimistic and indifferent to oneself and one's surroundings. "The Search For TRUTH', is not looking for something abstract 'beyond the hills and above the clouds'! These types of efforts, are purely an attempt to desperately escape from the fact of DEATH and our own fear for its inevitability. To explore one's own consciousness choicelessly and encounter the falsity of one's sense of individuality, which is averse to death, is the essence of true spirituality. Free of all supernatural assumptions, one has to clearly see that one's sense of 'I', 'ME' and 'Self-identity' is fictitious. In our own daily life, one has to discern that this notion has no continuity at all. Perceiving the ever changing identity emphasis from our wakeful period to dreaming moments to deepsleep period, daily, is indeed a telling lesson. Also, from the very formative days in our life, ever so many identities have appeared in our consciousness and stayed for a duration and have departed. Simultaneously also, we don quite a few identities and the play of mutual interaction takes place, hopping and slipping from one identity to another. But, all these gymnastics of consciousness is happening rather 'UNCONSCIOUSLY' (Un aware). It is seldom noticed that such a quicksilver like self-conscious identity spectrum, through the habit of unending repetition, assumes constancy as one's ego sense. This enduring notion notwithstanding many in-between breaks in the 'waking-dream-deepsleep' sequences, due to the peculiar human capacity to project any notion as an objective reality, 'KNOWS and FEARS" ITS end in the physical death! The death that it sees all around is only the physical death, about which it is intelligent enough to understand the reason. What this self-identity notion ever for the first time encounters in 'ITS OWN DEATH" is the "DEATH OF IDENTITY"! For we human beings, the death of self-identity is immensely more painful than physical death. Our self-identity amazingly survives through even a most blood curdling physical mutilations, dementia and senility. May be, even in the state of coma, the self-identity is still sticking. Perhaps, only this deep-rooted conditioning makes us eagerly accept the theory of transmigration of "Soul", so as to reincarnate in a new birth after the present impending death! Notwithstanding the theory of reincarnation, our self-identity writhes in fear and delirium at the prospects of DEATH. The only known cure, for this illness of self-identity, is to come upon the unalterable fact of the illusoriness of the very self-identity. But for the fictitious center of human "Self-identity", there is no struggle and resistance against the most natural event of DEATH. 'The BIRTH' and 'The DEATH' are two sides of the very same enigmatic coin of LIFE. One without the other is just not possible. Except the human EGO, no other facet of Creation, strives to separate death away from birth. Let us realize the truth hidden in the basic issue of our existence. *DEATH of organic forms through the process of growth-and-decay is an inevitable 'All-embracing life-process'. This process governs humankind too! * The life-potency of all creatures is composed of bio-magnetic energy quotient. Universally at the very foundation of Cosmos, this energy is inexhaustibly present, perennially aiding organic creation. In the humankind, a very deep sense of self-identity appears as an image. This projected image firmly latches on to the bio-magnetic energy base. Thus, the notion of 'I' and 'ME' is too deeply entrenched. * The post-death lingering of "Self-Identity" is only a shadow existence, akin to magnetically recorded audio-video images! Replay happens, when the appropriate conditions get organized. Even then, their quality is only of latent images. * While the human being is alive, "Self-Identity" cannot escape repeated distinct discontinuity, through 'Waking-Dreaming-Deep-sleeping' state. This makes it very much evident that continuous individualized sense of self-identity is only a notion and hence an illusion. All human beings can understand this, without any need for high pressure convincing! * Deep-sleep state conclusively proves that life is intact, even in the total absence of self-identity. This lesson can help us devalue the undue importance of certainty given to the sense of 'I' and 'ME' notion. * There is a very strong resistance prevailing in a human being, to avoid death of one's "Self-Identity". This is the cause of "Birth" of reincarnation theory! * All shades of "Soul" theories propagated by different religions are meant to console the fears of human psyche. Still, none of these theories can restore peace and quietude in human beings. Fears and insecurity related to the death of one's self-identity continues! *While being alive in this world, if one realizes profoundly the illusory nature of the pranks of human self-identities, the unconditional freedom from the fear of death dawns. This human being, who is full of freedom brims with love and togetherness, which cannot be measured by words. Such a living torch of LOVE is the true 'JEEVAN MUKTA'. ('JEEVAN' = Alive here-and-now. 'Mukta' = Liberated Being). Even the silent PRESENCE of a 'Jeevan Mukta', is the most potential inspiration for the suffering ignorant humankind. * If at all any purpose that can be attributed to our human existence, it is only to grow and go beyond our death-pang for the demise of self-identity.

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