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Life After Death
What now we are,we can see and experience, and, therefore, we are not keenly interested to know about it, but a thing that we cannot see or experience we are keenly interested in and all anxious to know about it.
When we are told "what now we are, why we are unhappy unlike our forefathers, why we have cultivated bad habits, wrong intentions, and devilish tendencies and how we must improve ourselves so that we may bring more happiness to ourselves and others", it is found that very few are keen to listen to and learn.
But when something is told about ''What after death' many show their anxiety to know.
It is not so much important to know "what after death", as "what now we are, what is our present life, how to experience undisturbed peace and happiness, and how to bring peace and happiness in the society." But this is the modern "time wherein people think that they are intellectually evolved. Therefore, this question arises in each individual" what after death?"
Before entering into the subject, we must first analyse these. What is Life? What is death? Death of whom?
Life to a materialist
To the materialist life is an illogical and meaningless procession 'from womb to tomb - nothing to be improved and no goal reached'
To them life started as an accident in birth and it ends equally at certain point "death". To them each individual is an arrow that came from darkness into life to fly across towards the darkness again. To them life is to eat, drink and make merry while living, " for there is nothing before birth and much less beyond the grave"
The law of their life is to kill, loot, steal and make merry.
As Shakespeare said after death there is nothing, as no one once dead, comes back to tell us his experience. If after death any had come back and talked to us of his experience, we would have believed that there was something after death. As no one has ever come back to tell us his experience, we believe, nay, we are surethat there is nothing after death. .
To a spiritualist
But to the spiritualist, life is a continuous process with a great purpose and a glorious pattern, a right logic and good meaning. The life which we are living today is an effect and since every effect must have a cause, our lives must have their independent causes even though those causes are not visible to us today. Therefore it is the law of their life "thou shall not kill, thou shall not loot, thou shall not steal, for thou shall suffer later". Sow a wind, you must be ready to reap the whirl-wind. Hence they cry, live up to certain higher values of life such as tolerance, love, kindness and mercy.
To Be Continued
About the author
Swami Chinmayananda
Swami Chinmayananda the great master's lectures were an outpour of wisdom. He introduced the Geetha Gnana Yagna. He wrote a lot of books on spirituality, commentaries to Vedantic texts, children books etc. He then started spreading His teachings globally.....
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