Death is not the definitive end of our journey, but rather a temporary transition, a part of life, an eternal, ongoing cycle where new beginning appears just after the cessation of bodily functions, release of eternal soul.
The wheel never stops spinning. Death is merely a comma, not a full stop.
Tibetan Buddhism uses the Bhava chakra ( Wheel of Life) to show that dying is just moving to a different realm on the wheel.
Hinduism and Bhagavad Gita teaches us that the immortal soul ( Atman) changes bodies the way a person casting off wornout clothes to put on new one, the soul casts off a wornout body to enter a new one.
Death is a comma – a doorway where the soul departs into a new realm.
Consciousness is the eternal traveller moving through cycles. Death is Part of Life.
Death is the natural inevitable conclusion to the biological journey of life.
Richard Feynman interpreted death through the lens of Physics. He pointed out that our body consists of billions of atoms that existed long before and will continue to exist long after we are gone. When we die those atoms scatter, recombine and become part of the universe.
According to him energy as being conserved is a shifting form rather than vanishing. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transformed from one flavour to another. The body is a temporary arrangement of atoms holding chemical energy. Decomposition of the body after death release heat, mechanical and chemical energy back into the ecosystem.
In 2002 the writer and physicist Aaran Freeman viewed that there is no full stop. We cannot destroy the heat, the electrical impulses in the brain or the chemical body of the person.
Quantum physics provides an extraordinary scientific parallel to the spiritual concept of ‘ no full stop ‘ by radically redefining reality, observation and information. Quantum physics suggests that death may not be a definitive end but rather a transformation. Energy and information are indestructible.
Our consciousness may continue, persist along the timelines when we survive.
Death doesn’t happen to our consciousness. We might die, our awareness simply follows the thread of reality when we survived.
Quantum mechanics relies heavily on the observer. Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrodinger whose wave equations form the basis of modern quantum mechanics – noted that his theories directly mirrored the nondualistic principles of the Upanishads, asserting that consciousness is singular and universal.
Realisation of Hindu philosophy and literature particularly reflects in the Upanishads and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s thoughts on Santiniketan that Death is the destruction of the mortal body, but the immortal soul or the Supreme Brahman that lies within it is deathless.
Rabindranath Tagore has presented this theory in his essay ‘Death and Amrit ‘.
The meaning of life lies in the realisation of transcending death and uniting with Him.
Fear not death, rather focus your energy on living a fully present, purposeful and meaningful life.
The pain of grief or the loss of a loved one is forever etched in the mind, but it is possible to find peace of mind by accepting that emptiness in a positive way and transforming it into love.
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Very nice writing …
Realisation is the answer .I feel you have achieved that by seeing the way you live and serve . Thanks
Wonderfully explained the spiritual aspect and ongoing cycle of ‘good death’ and ‘good life’.