The trauma of my aunt’s tragic death is still hunting me. It is beyond words to narrate how she fell
into a valley while she was going on a horse to reach the famous Kedarnath Temple in Uttarakhund,
India. The manner of death really shocked me and threw me out of gear for some
weeks. The incident had taken me to a new level of
wisdom about uncertainty of life.
Deepak Chopra says that the Prince of Death is just behind you all the time and
the only difference is method of execution and length of reprieve.
We see many people who are perturbed to amass wealth in the name of security.
To grab the world of possessions they stop enjoying life of present moment and hanker
for accumulating wealth.
One great person sagely advises that
" live the life everyday as if it is
your last day". In such a living, you reap the benefits of
distilled wisdom of enlightened masters. You need not frighten much about death
when it is an inescapable event of life. Sky is
the only limit for human endeavour. All
great personalities who lived on this planet have taught this great lesson.
Steve Jobs, the iconic CEO of Apple Computers who died due to pancreatic cancer
is so pragmatic in his ideology. “In
his famous 2005 Stanford University speech, he says that :
“ When I was 17, I read
a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your
last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on
me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every
morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I
want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been
"No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
He further says that “no one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. “
About life, Jobs says that “your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
So don’t fear death which you can't escape and do to unleash your potential !