The Fear of Death is Worse than Death Itself🔗

Once we decide that somebody is our enemy, we never look into his eyes. Whatever he does, we decide that he is doing so to agitate us. Even if he sits and has a cup of coffee or tea, we feel that he is plotting against us. Once we decide that somebody is our enemy, we don't want to have any contact with him. Similarly, once we decide that death is our enemy, we never look into it.

We are continually fighting death and in the end we just drop dead! We fight till we die. Our understanding about death, or rather our misunderstanding about death, makes death a fearful, frightening experience.

The man who resists death dies even while he lives, dies every moment because he is tortured by the very idea of death. When I say death, I don't mean only physical death. Losing anything is a form of death. Losing our comfortable life is one form of death; losing our relatives is another. Please understand that loss in any form is nothing but death.

We may ask why people are so depressed and disturbed when they lose their close relatives. Even if we are not emotionally attached to them, we are deeply affected by their death. We are more affected when we are close to them, attached to them emotionally. When our mother dies, our whole left side will suffer. When our father dies, our whole right side will suffer. The left side of the body is associated with the feminine energy while the right side is associated with the masculine energy. When our brothers die, our hands will suffer. There is a deep connection between us and our relatives. Every part of our body is connected to someone or the other.

Our being is not an individual being. It is not alone, separate, as we think. We are all interlinked. No man is an island. Everybody is interlinked. That is why we undergo terrible suffering when we lose someone or something. There is an energy loss within us. We feel empty as if we are in a void. Every 'missing' that we experience, no matter of whom or what, is what I call death.

Why are we so afraid of death? Our misunderstanding, our misconception about death makes it much more frightening than it really is. As of now, death is a totally devastating experience for us. The very word shakes us, frightens us. Nobody wants to even think about it.