DEATH
Atleast once a day
We never think about Death during our day. Think about your death at least once a day. You will see your impermanence, insignificance in this world. Especially since death could come anytime to you. It is not as though people have all been allotted at least 50 years or so. If you think about your death daily on these lines you will develop the qualities needed for enlightenment such as humility, obedience, lovingness, patience, peace and maturity. Instead we have become arrogant, hateful, rude and agitated. Look at how people are living like this, as if they control the entire destiny, as though the earth won’t rotate without their permission.
If you had thought about death like this from your birth, you would be a Jnani today. But we don’t talk about it. It is suppressed and not brought up by parents, in schools, by the media etc. Only the Guru teaches you this. Everyone else is fooling you and themselves.
A disciple’s mother went to the hospital one day and the very next day her body was cremated. No one would have imagined. Mahaprabu went to the crematorium. Sat for a long time, that too quite close to where the body was burning. No one was even near him.
One day you will be totally forgotten. Erased from minds and the world. A great man like Gandhi, did you think about him yesterday? We all touch money daily. Those notes have Gandhi’s face imprinted but still no one takes 1 second in a day to think about him. If Gandhi was forgotten, do you think you will be remembered? Yet people are blinded by their ignorance from which comes arrogance. They live like they are kings. When Mahaprabu sees arrogant behaviour he laughs.
So think of your death, that you could die any moment today or tomorrow. Do this twice a day. As you wake up, think about it. And before going to sleep think about your mortality. It will be immensely helpful in your Sadhana.
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