16 Jan 2022
[A question by Shri Phani]
Swami Replied:- Death is said by Him as inevitable to anybody after taking birth on this Earth (aparihārye'rthe, na tvaṃ śocitu marhasi). The soul is born to die and the soul dies to take birth again. The life of the soul after birth is only the process of walking towards the goal that is death. The life of the soul after death is only the process of spending time to the goal that is birth. When the goal is fixed and its corresponding effort called walking is also being done, shall one weep about the goal? Hence, one shall not waste time even for one minute to think about death, which is inevitable to any born soul. Based on the same concept, one shall not weep for anybody, who is dead because death is inevitable to everybody including the weeping person. Infact, the soul is neither having birth nor death. This external body alone is having birth and death. This external body is just the external shirt of the soul. When the shirt becomes old reaching torning state, it is rejected by you, which will be used as waste cloth to clean the floor on which people also walk. In such case, do you feel that you are that waste cloth insulted in such a way?
One shall not bother about the materialistic life in this world because the materialistic life is only a railway journey taken by a person, who is attending an interview in the next station. The reason is that the interview to be attended is the most important for which one shall prepare even during the time of journey. The soul after death is going to be judged by God for merits and sins. The soul shall meet the enquiry of God about itself in the upper sub-world called Preta Loka after death, which must be kept by it as its utmost important goal. The comforts in the compartment of train are immaterial for a candidate going to attend the interview in the next station. If the candidate is selected in the interview, he will get a job giving comforts throughout the rest of life. The comforts in the train are only just for one hour, which is the time of journey. The comforts in the life are just like the comforts of journey in the train by which one is reaching the goal-station in one hour like human life. After reaching the goal of human life, which is the death that is like the next station where the interview like enquiry by God is conducted in the upper sub-world. Preparation for the enquiry by God is like preparation for the interview, which is going to deal the final matter.
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