Is it important HOW we die?
Is it important how we die?
Yes, it is said that it doesn’t matter than who is who, even when God himself manifests on this planet, one day he has to go back. So, anyone who is born on this planet has to die or has to go. It is important to know this. We are not permanent residents of this planet. We are coming and going. Now, it means not that it doesn’t matter how we die. We don’t want to die suffering full of pain. We don’t want to die starving and hungry that we can’t do anything that no one listens to us or helps us. We would like that though spiritual life, though meditation and prayers, by loving this world and people, consciously we take a deep breath and our soul merges into the Supreme. This is very important.
In some scriptures death is described as a very holy process. And, we have to respect it. That’s why the last will of the person should be respected. The last will of the person should be above the law of any country because that is described and accepted as the Divine will. So, we will die one day or we have to leave this body, but we pray that we pass over peacefully, and relaxed and happily. And, that our spiritual light, our mantra, our Gurudev, our Guide, his light should guide us further in the astral world. So, it is sure that one day we will have to go, but it is not only that it doesn’t matter how we die- we will die. That is true. But, we wish that we will die comfortably, happily, peacefully, without suffering pain.
-Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda (July Interview)
