The Immortal Idea Of Immortality

Death is nothing new to humans. We read about it everyday in the papers, accept it as a phenomena of life. For people like me who are soaked in Hindu spirituality, death is a window to a new life. Such that we never say a person is dead (in finality), but use phrases such as passed away or moved on.

Yet, when it comes to the immediate circle of family or friends in one’s life, we shy away… rather hide… from the concept of death. It’s a self-reassuring belief that we will all stay together, immortal. It’s a thought that the mind never entertains.

I’ve just lost an aunt to death. She was a fighter who battled against odds for over a year. Every time I met her, she only looked more frail and pale. Yet, that one smile she smiled, those few words she spoke reassured me that she would live on… stay immortal in the human body.

Now that she has moved on, we the family are shattered emotionally. Heart of heart we believe she is relieved of her mortal worries and physical trauma. But the belief in immortality, despite us having witnessed several deaths of near and dear ones in the past, is what is affected the most again. It’s a belief that now has to learn to reinvent itself, allow us to let go of the belief itself and allow it to metamorphose into a higher belief statement of immortality of the soul.

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