Life Death and Beyond

Why This Heedlessness of Death? owner of them, and that, therefore, he has the right to do with them just as he pleases. But death is a complete rebuttal of this notion. Death tells us that a person actually has nothing that is really his own. None of his possessions will remain with him forever. Death completely separates him from his wealth forever. After death, he suddenly finds himself all alone. This is the biggest fact of life. A person who discovers this truth will use his money and possessions in such a way that will benefit him in the life that comes after death. Without knowing this truth, a person’s life is oriented to this world alone. But if he realizes this truth, his life becomes a Hereafter-oriented one. Why This Heedlessness of Death? I was listening to All-India Radio. It was the interview of a certain writer. This man had died some months before. After his death, when I listened to his voice on the radio, suddenly I felt that he had been speaking while he was still alive in the present world and then, after he had died, he had gone to another world and now it was if he is speaking from there! A recorded voice that is listened to later symbolizes the fact that even after death a person is not extinguished. Rather, moving out of one phase of his life he enters another one. Man is an eternal being. He can never be snuffed out. After death, he continues to live, in some form or the other. According to modern findings in biology, the human body is a collection of more than 100 trillion cells. These cells