A life in reverse!

Dear Sri,

Very true. Humour can create rapport with anyone immediately. But I think humour is very difficult to write....in my view than poetry or drama. It should be of the right balance...can anyone write like Wodehouse? I don't think so.
Even Swamijis at Ramakrishna Math where I go sometimes to listen discourses, they create a rapport with audience with humourous anecdotes.......but the problem is, after coming back home we remember only those anecdotes and not the real subject!

Syamala

 

One of the best, Cheeniya Sir. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Took me to that day when I was completely overwhelmed by my friend's answer to a question. Let me try posting that in my way here.

"If you are ever given a chance
To relive just one moment of your life,
Which event could it be perchance?"
I asked many men I met in my life.

Some quoted the day of their marriage,
Some reminisced their achievements
I couldn't find a pattern with age,
Each quoted their sense of fullfilment.

It was all so magnificent to hear
And they enjoyed reminiscing too.
Having a big burden that we bear,
Its good to recollect nice things a few.

Then I heard from one of my friends
Who had been away for a while.
His answer was so good that it sent
Me floating high for a while.

"Given a chance I'll straight away pick
The day I was born, in order to give
That joy again to my mom who's stuck
With sorrow most of the time she lived".

What is so special with that response was that he grew up in another place [fostered to one of their distant relatives, soon after birth, because they were so poor and he was not the first or last child] and knew about his mom very late. -rgs

 

Dear Shri Cheeniya,
Thanks for suggesting this post. So revealing and fascinating at the same time. Life must be going in reverse, who knows?

r a read.

 

Dear Shri Cheeniya,
Thanks for suggesting this post. So revealing and fascinating at the same time. Life must be going in reverse, who knows? May be next time.

r a read.

 

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

I can't believe I responded to this thread of yours 12 years ago when I was only 58 years old. Whether I became wiser than my earlier response or not, I have become older. Review that happens in our mind's eye is a gift that happens to all of us when we get ready to leave this beautiful planet. That opportunity is to drop out all our regrets and guilt through self-forgiveness and also work towards the mindset those who are close to us will continue to live peacefully without us as the one who provided for us also will provide for those who are continuing the journey. Acceptance takes time if we don't understand why death is inevitable as death occurs only to our body which is transient and unreal as taught by Adi Sankara. Lord Krishna taught his friend Arjuna that we all were always there as we come and go many times. The death happens only to this body and Atma is indestrctible. Our only goal is to remove the encryption that we have in every life and liberate our Atma from the cycle of birth and death.

In Sanskrit movie about Adi Sankara, Adi Sankara had two friends who always traveled with him wherever he went. One is known as Mrythinjaya and another is Jnana. Symbolically, Mrythinjaya always stayed away from Adi Sankara when he meditated. Finally, when Mrythinjaya asks Adi Sankara whether he can hug Adi Sankara, he asks his other friend Jnana whether he would always stay with him. When he nodded yes, then, he tells his friend Mrythinjaya to embrace him at the age of 32. It is a symbolic representation that the best way to conquer the fear of death is to attain Jnana.

Even though I couldn't write as eloquently as you write, I wrote a thread about our journey in a thread.

Journey

I never picked up that subject again as some of the young ILites got scared after reading this snippet.

One way I prepare myself is by volunteering in the Hospice every week. As you know, most patients admitted here are facing end of life situation and we see so many patients pass away every week. I would like to train my mind that it happens to everyone. In the play "Enge Brahmanan?" play directed by Cho Ramasamy, I remember the words uttered by a wise young man who decided to follow the Ashrama life prescribed in Veda when he was born to a CEO of a company and the words he said to someone in death bed that we are only shedding what has become obselete.

 

True _/\_.

 

Greetings to you all,

Though it is an old post of the last year but I wanted to share my feelings!

I totally agree with you my dear Brother on what you said about death. But I am someone who had understood this truth of "Birth and Death" when i was 13-14 years old.So to say "if we don't understand why death is inevitable"..!

My grandmother,who had raised me passed away last year and since then I am in the process of grieving and what is harder on me is acceptance and it took me almost 9 months and i am still not completely over it.I do understand,but then why i could not accept?

I know very well that we are not born along with this body and we don't die when this body dies.

The fact that we are not this body and it is bound to perish gives us so much to think about.


The Last Stage Of journey......Islamic Concept n Beliefs.....!

{one of my old threads,in case you want to have a glimpse of it}

regards,
Yumna