Take death seriously
Those who take life seriously will fear death. But those who take death seriously will love life.
Heed this: Those who take life seriously will fear death. But those who take death seriously will love life.
Your embryonic conception guarantees your death. Your death defines your life. Before your parents conceived you, you were nowhere in this world. You lived unattached.
Yet now you cling to this fleeting world.
You are madly striving to build a bigger barn to store your harvest, but tonight is your last.
You cannot take any of your possessions beyond this breath. You can only take your love.
The greater your attachments to your possessions, the greater the pain. Clinging blinded you to Truth.
I see you weeping.
You are begging for one more chance to make it right.
“Please, let me return,” you cry. “I know what I have to do now.”
You’ve been here an eternity. The very things you avoided earlier, Silence and Light, overwhelm you now.
You are on your knees, the marble floor is flooded with your tears. This is not the first time you have been here. And you will return until you enter into Truth.
What is this Truth?
Recall the dandelion in your garden. And how the dandelion scatters her seeds in the wind through her death. Her acceptance of finite death granted her immortal life.
Listen: take death seriously, and you will find eternal life. Take life seriously, and you will lose eternal life.
By love he knows me in truth, who I am and what I am. And when he knows me in truth he enters into my Being.1
Our death to self initiates us into immortality. So surrender yourself to love and find eternal life in the One.
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Bhagavad Gita, 18 v15.