The meaning of Death

In our busy life we barely seek for the true reason of our existence. We all are so engrossed into materialistic concept that we do not regard spirituality as an important aspect of our life anymore. Our constant endeavor to develop ourselves gradually takes us away from our own being. While, achieving our goal, we forget the core fact of life that death is awaiting ahead in our path. For centuries the subject ‘death’ has been one of the most evaluated topics. It gained remarkable importance from every sphere of life. The core discussion of the subject time to time awakened the self – esteemed of different generations.  

‘Death’ is the most uncertain aspect of our life that none could ever evade. Both powerful and powerless are forced to surrender their happiness, sorrow and all other living element to it. Death has been compared with the hunting process of Eagle. The way the prey of Eagle is surprised by the sudden attack and feel helpless, our condition to death is quite same like the prey. None can say when death will engulf its black shadow on our life and terminate us from the stage of life.

All our characteristic aspects like anger, rudeness, kindness, pride etc are being washed away by the power of death. Be it rich or poor there is no discrimination in the arena of our eternal journey, all are being treated with same reception. Death takes away all our living existence from us forever, our relatives, friends and all the pleasures of living beings.  All our dominance is annihilated with the approach of death in one’s life. Writers of different eras quite explicitly depicted the real side of death and along with that made us feel about our extravagance and exaggeration about our materialistic achievement. The beautiful literary work of different writers intrigued an invisible passion in the mind of its readers that steered a sensation of humanity in the heart of ample.

The long established stratification of our society and classification between reach and poor has gained utmost importance when death has approached any village or community. Regardless of social status all are being buried or burnt next to each other, making all the distinguishable element of classification vanished in a moment. The self realization of the process of death approaching to one’s path and its eventually triumph over life makes one feel the real magnitude of life. One must delve deep to comprehend how uncertain and limited our life is, all our emotional attributes barely matter when we are able comprehend the process of life.

It may sound juxtaposing that comprehending the essence of death teaches us to value life with more wisdom and knowledge but the fact is death and life are two sides of a coin which none of us can ignore. The realization of departing the world is an inevitable process for all of us that would in turn imbued us with the longing to embrace life and live it more enthusiastically than ever before. All the gloom and sadness that lingered for so long may gradually sway with the understanding the true value of life. Death is the biggest truth of life that neither could ever evade nor would anyone be able to bypass it.