AN INTERVIEW WITH DEATH
Cessation of breath is not death. It is not a full stop of life
but just a coma in a long sentence of life. There is life beyond death where a
subject survives with its mercurial body and all subconscious cognition
constituted by its past karmas carried out through different births and lives
through ages
By Mukesh Sharma
Her pupil-less eyes were
white like full moon; there was gleam but no gaze; she wouldn’t cast glance but
just turn face in the direction of the subject. With white eyebrows and grey
long straight hair falling down the knee, her starch white rather elongated
face with striking mien was expressionless - no smile or
frown, no happiness or sorrow, no mercy or cruelty, just intensely calm and
quiet. Slick and slim, she was in full sleeves white rob down to ground; her
white hands with well-shaped fingers were sticking out. She would walk with no
gait. She would just float to come near or go far. She would shrink or swell
her to any size. She would speak without lip synch. The sound of her echoing
voice was so clear and deep as if emanating from far off space. She had
stunning power to produce her any number of visual copies in a twinkling of
eyes to be at number of places at the same time.
Feared by all the living
beings, she was none other than the Death herself. Though
invisibly she is everywhere, she has made humans’ hospital as her temporary
residence in this Corona time. It won’t be wrong to call such places nowadays
as House of Death.
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Blogger
Mukesh Sharma recuperating in an American hospital, Glendale, Arizona, US |
Lying on the hospital
bed with many machines buzzing and terminals fixed on the chest and legs, this
blogger all of a sudden caught the sight of the Death, and out of
curiosity couldn’t desist himself to have a word with her. Here are the
excerpts of a revealing conversation:
Blogger:
PranaamMaa
Death:
Long live son. I am surprised that you can see me! One can see me
only a few seconds before one’s last breath. Perhaps God has bestowed on you
some special powers.
Blogger:
Maa you have just blessed me
with long life?
Death:
Of course son. It is well within the capacity and capability of
the man to live a long life. God or I have nothing to do with that. Death is
the result of sinful karmas.
Blogger:
What is this sinful karma?
Death:
All seven deadly sins - Pride, Greed, Wrath,
Envy, Lust, Gluttony and Sloth make knots of guilt in the mind.
Further, man commits sins by Thoughts, Actions and Words. Any
act against the natural justice is sinful karma. It is these
sinful karmas that cause early death.
Blogger:
What is death?
Death:
Cessation of breath is not death. It is not a full stop of life
but just a coma in a long sentence of life. There is life beyond death where a
subject survives with its mercurial body and all subconscious cognition
constituted by its past karmas carried out through different births and lives
through ages.
Blogger:
Then what is life ?
Death:
Life is a blessing of God. All the creatures are essentially the
respected residents of Kingdom of God. Each life on the earth
has a specific purpose for the perpetuation of nature. Each life has separate
identity but interconnected and interdependent on one another like the
countless droplets of the one ocean. A reasonable life span is assigned by the
God to each creature suitable to the gross body it wears that can further be
increased or decreased through karmas.
Blogger:
How the age of a man is determined?
Death:
Man has no fixed age; it may be of a few minutes or of many
decades and centuries; it may be extended even to eternity like the great
devotee of lord Rama, Hanumana who is still alive on the earth
right from satyuga. All depends on karma, and karmas are
under the control of man himself not God.
Blogger:
I am not able to understand this esoteric wisdom. Would you please
spell it out, Maa ?
Death:
It’s not a secret son. Even in the Gita, Chapter 1, sloka
7, Lord Krishna Himself has revealed this truth and uses
the word dvijottama- man is born
twice - first born into the world of nature through the womb of his
mother and second birth is into the world of spirituality. The individual born
as a child of nature grows up into his spiritual manhood and becomes a child
of light.
Blogger:
Maa elucidate it
further for this moron son.
Death:
Through selfless karma one gets enlightened
like Buddha, Mohammad, Nanak and Christ - all are the
children of light - all are true sons of God. An
enlightened man emerges as a superhuman and eventually be one with
the God.
Blogger:
You mean to say even an ordinary man like me can become God.
Death:
Of course son. An extraordinary is born as an ordinary first. Even
God has to be born as a man first to become God again. Through karma it
is possible. But only a few blessed souls get enlightened and
attain salvation - free from the bondage of
birth and death. It may take thousands of births through thousands of years to
cleanse and upgrade the mind through rightful karmas and meditation. Distracted by
illusions and deviated from the righteous path of karma, the
majority of lesser souls die again and again through sins and sufferings, and
are reborn in different forms and shapes of life with varied life-span to
suffer afresh.
Blogger:
But Maa, we humans live in society. We live through
mundane duties towards family, society and our respective country. How a
worldly man can get enlightened?
Death:
Son nothing is useless or purposeless in this universe. Be it
animate or inanimate each has a specific purpose. Humans can continue the pursuit
of purpose through one’s human duties, as a good father, a good
mother, a good wife, a good husband, a good son, a good daughter, a good
friend, a good citizen, and as a whole a good human being. Lives of
all great humans on the earth teach this goodness.
Blogger:
What do you mean by the pursuit of purpose?
Death:
Inner self of each man knows the real purpose of its life. But the
perverted man is seldom able to know or see it; he commits all kinds of sins to
be ‘successful’ in the eyes of others; he lives and works for short lived
success and happiness rather than actual purpose of life which brings real pleasure, bliss
and contentment. It is acquired through rightful karmas whatever
may be the circumstances or situation. Rightful karmas always
lead to rightful purpose of life. Each object in the universe be it the sun,
the moon, planets, stars, any seen or unseen, known or unknown, has
a specific purpose and it does karma to serve that
purpose, a duty assigned by God.
Blogger:
I am still bit confused Maa
Death:
It’s so simple son. Suppose one wishes to become an IAS, only
hardwork( karma) would serve one’s purpose. Means always
leads to End. To be at the top of a mountain, just stick to the right
trail. Think of work (deeds) not about its fruit. No action goes without
reaction. Bad action brings bad reaction and good action results in good
reaction. One can get enlightened even by doing one’s rightful karmas possible
well within the family life and by performing worldly duties.
Blogger:
What are the causes of early death?
Death:
Ignorance and illusions are responsible for the doom of the
unblessed. Unaware of his powers, man is attracted to illusions - the unreal
world which is just a shadow and thus commits sins after sins, and dies with
sufferings. I have nothing to do with the death of living beings. I have no power to kill even a tiny insect. All creatures write their own death. Man dies in his
mind first because of fear produced by the guilty conscience a fallout of sins.
As a result, the body too dies. Prana cannot survive
with sick mind. When pranas leaves the body, I have no option
but to take over the soul of the subject.
Blogger:
Any message to mankind in this corona time, Maa
Death:
Mind you, man is the creation of God; he is a son of God; he has
all the powers like God. Through his mind and mental energy what you call will
power, man can overcome deadliest thing known as fear, a root cause
of all the human problems. Man can befriend life; he can defeat
death. Corona is nothing before man’s enormous mind power. Man can achieve even
seeming impossibilities. Could anyone have imagined thousands years ago that
man would reach moon one day. Universe is full of possibilities. Man can make
things happen. Nothing is beyond the reach of man. After all man is the son of
God.
Out of reverence, the
moment this blogger closed his eyes and open it again, Maa Death had
become invisible.
