Why This Heedlessness of Death?

Why This Heedlessness of Death? wanting to recognize the fact of our mortality. Only then can it be possible for us to rise above our conditioning, distinguish between the pre-death phase of our life and the post-death phase and plan our life on the basis of reality. This way of thinking can be called ‘detached thinking’. In the words of a poet: My ability of detached thinking is worthy of praise. I remember You while in the midst of non-godly things, O God! Thinking realistically in this manner, one will realize that there is just one sensible way to plan our life—and that is, what can be called ‘death-based planning’. In other words, to plan our life based on the recognition that this life of ours stretches from the temporary pre-death phase of life through death and to the eternal post-death phase. The present life is for all of us only a temporary journey. It is like a station where one gets off and then boards another train, which is heading to another place. In this regard, revealed knowledge, knowledge from the Divinely-revealed scriptures, provides us with reliable guidance. According to this guidance, the phase of our life before death is the time for making preparations, while the stage of life after death is the phase where we receive according to the preparations we had made in the former stage. This present life is like an examination hall. Everything here is an exam paper. Here, everything that happens with us, good or bad, is, in fact just a test paper. What we sow here shapes what we reap in the life after death. These are some basic truths or facts about human life. Each of us must plan our life in accordance with these truths if we want to be truly successful, in this life and in the life after death. In this present world, to plan one’s life on the basis of reality, ‘anti-programming thinking’, or, as they put it, ‘thinking out of the box’, is a must. This might appear to be something