Life Death and Beyond

Beginning of a New Stage of Life anything, happens after death? Which way of life takes us to success in the life before death and in the life after death? We need to obtain a clear understanding of all these issues. This should be the topmost concern for all of us—whether we be learned scholars or so-called illiterates, rich or poor, weak or strong. For all of us, irrespective of nationality, ethnicity, gender, class, religion and so on, these are most crucial questions. To obtain the right answers to these questions should be our foremost concern. Beginning of a New Stage of Life Plants, animals and human beings—all of these have to face death, one day or the other. Every tree finally loses its greenery. Every lion finally loses its majestic mane. Similarly, every human being who takes birth here will die. Death is a universal law of this world, to which no one is an exception. But unlike other living beings, it is only a human being who knows that his life can be cut short at any moment and that even if he attains what is regarded as the expected human lifespan, his growth is bound to be followed by eventual decline, and, in due course, by death. Among all creatures it is only a human being who has an understanding of death. This exception tells us that the matter of death is different for man than it is for other living beings. For the latter, death is an event of unawareness, while for man it is something that he can become fully aware of. This exceptional quality of human beings indicates that for man, along with death there is also consciousness of death.