I thought about death a lot of times, mostly when it affects someone I know. It is the only true thing in life, the surest thing that is going to happen to anyone living. It is to the stopping of this very beautiful gift from God , an end to it.
Is death an opposite of life? For some it might sound so. And for many it would feel like it is really the opposite of life. But is it really? Perusing through various literature of religious significance we would find it is not. Death is not the opposite of life, it is merely the absence of life in this world. In some religions death would be just be a step towards rebirth. People with atheistic tendencies would for all purpose believe Death is contrary to life. Things just stop to be.
From Christian, Jewish and Islamic perspective there is a time to be born, and a time to die. Eternal life of happiness and pleasures is a gift that is granted to all who accept their Lords and work to please him. Eternal Damnation for those who don’t. Jewish Traditionalists gave the name Gehenna to the place where souls were punished. Many Jewish thinkers noted that since, essentially, God is filled with mercy and love, punishment is not to be considered to be eternal
Dying and being reborn has been compared by some Buddhist as a candle flame. When the flame of one lit candle is touched to the wick of an unlighted candle, the light passes from one candle to another. The actual flame of the first candle does not pass over but is responsible for lighting the second candle. Death is merely a passage to rebirth in another realm such as the human world, a pure land or the flowering of the ultimate nature of the mind.
Hinduism believes in the rebirth and reincarnation of souls. Death is therefore not a great calamity, not an end of all, but a natural process in the existence of soul as a separate entity, by which it reassembles its resources, adjusts its course and returns again to the earth to continue its journey.
Is death an opposite of life? For some it might sound so. And for many it would feel like it is really the opposite of life. But is it really? Perusing through various literature of religious significance we would find it is not. Death is not the opposite of life, it is merely the absence of life in this world. In some religions death would be just be a step towards rebirth. People with atheistic tendencies would for all purpose believe Death is contrary to life. Things just stop to be.
From Christian, Jewish and Islamic perspective there is a time to be born, and a time to die. Eternal life of happiness and pleasures is a gift that is granted to all who accept their Lords and work to please him. Eternal Damnation for those who don’t. Jewish Traditionalists gave the name Gehenna to the place where souls were punished. Many Jewish thinkers noted that since, essentially, God is filled with mercy and love, punishment is not to be considered to be eternal
Dying and being reborn has been compared by some Buddhist as a candle flame. When the flame of one lit candle is touched to the wick of an unlighted candle, the light passes from one candle to another. The actual flame of the first candle does not pass over but is responsible for lighting the second candle. Death is merely a passage to rebirth in another realm such as the human world, a pure land or the flowering of the ultimate nature of the mind.
Hinduism believes in the rebirth and reincarnation of souls. Death is therefore not a great calamity, not an end of all, but a natural process in the existence of soul as a separate entity, by which it reassembles its resources, adjusts its course and returns again to the earth to continue its journey.
Whatever the truth is about death, one thing is true. It will surely come, and once it does, there is no stopping it. We have a life, we need to put it to good use, and when we go out we go out all guns blazing.
