They Can Never Be Dead

@Mistt
dear Mistt
Thanks to the good wishes of friends like you, I am slowly recovering and I should hopefully be completely normal in about a month's time. Thank you very much for your good wishes.
Sri

 

@Srama
My dear Sabi
A fascinating response that was.
Birth and death never cease to fascinate me. I never tire of reading about them. Hearing scholars like Adi Sankara talk about, 'Punarabi janana, punarapi maranam', I developed a belief in it. It explains why some children are born to celebrity parents while others to beggars in the street. What determines this disparity? Karma is an amazing explanation to this riddle even if you are not a believer of Karma.
When a child is born, it cries and everyone around smiles joyously. When he grows, becomes old and dies, everyone round him cries and he is in peaceful and everlasting slumber. What has the man earned after an eventful life? A few drops of tear. It sounds grossly unfair that all his life's labour ends up with earning a few drops of tear.
An uncle of my wife died in Bangalore. There were already two bodies awaiting cremation. It was likely to take a few hours before the uncle could be laid to rest. We were getting increasively hungry. We saw oranges being sold outside the cremation ground. We rushed out to buy and consume them to quench our increasing thirst and hunger. The body was lying inside the crematorium all alone! I learnt a lot of things about human life and its eventual death on that day.
All that tale about the bloody Vaitarani River and roasting in boiling oil may be tales to drive people away from sinning but the sinners don't bother about all such threats. Imagine the richest man on earth being reborn as a child of a gypsy in the street and that is all about the cycle of life and death.
Sri

 

@shyamala1234
My dear Syamala

Extremely learned people have gibbered a lot more than we ever do in our life! Your observations are extremely interesting. The fact that people have cared to respond to your remarks is proof enough. I am the ultimate gainer because of all these interactions. Thank you
sri

 

@periamma
dear periamma
Thank you for good wishes. My mum would always say that as you grow old, you become the most desirable sojourn for all kinds of ailments. It's the growing process!
Sri

 

@periamma

Are we in the growing process? That scares me! My shirts and pants are already finding it hard to accommodate me. Any further growth, I'll have to say goodbye to my decade world pants and shirts!