Death itself is not as dreadful as believed by the world. People identified death as a horror in the weakest moment in their lives. They also supported this thoughts and feelings and saw it as a catastrophe. All these shows mere ignorance about death. In this ever changing universe death is equally if not more important condition. Life and death, their practical form is the same. Where there is life, death is present for certain and vice a versa. In other words everything changes at every moment. Old gets destroyed and new is formed instantly. So life and death is the same version of the life eternal. We humans have separated these two as sky and deep abyss of earth and have made this death as something terrible instead of ordinary and natural condition. This shows how ignorant is this world regarding death. Death is as auspicious as life eternal.
The reason for the fear is the inability of humans to comprehend the reality behind death. Humans are afraid to jump at the unknown due to their fearful nature. They try to comprehend death but have no clue about it. When they fail even to have a glimpse of it, they declare it as something terrible. Humans are fearful and hate death when they fail to understand what happens to soul after death and before birth. By nature humans fear death. They tremble at the thought of this unknown transformation and unimaginable consequences. They are used to live in stable condition and hate to change into different condition. Poor humans do not understand that death is as natural a condition in the universal order as a birth. Humans know 'anything with name is always destructible' and yet always ignore this truth and keep on living their lives.
Pujya Shree Mota
Jivan Sandesh
Edition 3; pages 235 - 236.
