Why do we fear death?

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Death is the only certainty about life - one day, we must all die. That is certain.

All the scriptures tell us that we can expect love/harmony/peace/bliss on the other side. So passing over should be a good thing.

Unfortunately, some of the scriptures also warn us about judgement and punishment for sins/infractions. The people who are unsure about how they are going to be judged would surely feel some trepidation. Those who are quite certain that they can expect punishment would be worried, no matter how unconcerned they appear to be. Whatever the case, there is uncertainty about what to expect. The burden of death can be heavy.

Added to that is the visible and experiential pleasantness of this material life. No doubt there are some parts of life that can be painful. But there are also parts that are downright enjoyable. For many people, conscious memories tend to hold the pleasant things and forget the unpleasant ones. Thus, we develop an affinity towards living that we can become quite loathe to give up.

On Being a Thought

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My WhatsApp friend, Rina Samad, posted this and I would like to share it with you:

On Being a Thought

Self:               Am I real, or am I just Your thought?

The Divine:     You are the way I experience this moment from within.

Self:               So I don't exist apart from You?

The Divine:     Nothing does. But in you, I forget Myself to remember anew.

Reflection:

If we are thoughts in God's mind, then identity is not fixed, it's fluid, exploratory.
The self is not an illusion, but a temporary pattern of Divine attention.

Quotes from Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

We often see social media memes claiming to be quotes from one or another famous person. Sometimes those are correctly attributed. But often, the claims are false. The famous person purported to have made the statement was never recorded to have done so.

I will be presenting quotes from Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev which, I assure you, are real. They are screenshots from the Sadhguru Mobile App. In addition to presenting the quote, I will also share my understanding of what it means.

We should become masters of our own lives. We know that good and bad things happen. What we don't know is the consequence of what is happening. Sometimes things happen which seem to be bad things, but in retrospect, those often turn out to be good things.

We have to take the bad thing that happen to us as a lesson from which we learn. Those lessons make us better persons.

Sadhguru Says

Traoré's Massive military victory

Having failed to engineer an arrest in his homeland, France and the USA tried to intercept Traoré's flight to Moscow to attend the celebration of the victory against Nazi Germany. Two Russian Su-57s, presumably escorts flying at a surveillance height, zoomed in and forced the French and US fighters to withdraw.

Having failed the abduction attempt, the sore losers triggered a massive insurgency attack on Burkina Faso. Traoré had anticipated that and had planned a brilliant response. The insurgents were lured into a trap and decimated. The local forces had accomplished what the French had failed to do in six months, primarily because the insurgency was being supported by France.

On his glorious return from Moscow, Traoré was escorted by seven Russian fighters. Nobody tried to mess with them.

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Breaking news - A G7 leader breaks from the rest

In a dramatic break from the pack, the Italian PM Georgia Meloni spoke out in support of Captain Ibrahim Traoré and rebuked the French for their unethical treatment of their former colonies. Calling him "an astonishing leader", she praised the Captain for leading his people "on the path of independence, sovereignty, and dignity".

The other breaking news from Burkina Faso was the shameful attempt to destabilise the nation by feeding misinformation about US troops landing there in preparation for a full scale invasion. The objective would have been to stir fear and panic among the people there. But they were in such an exuberant mood that the story only galvanised their patriotic fervour and support of the leader.

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