Life after Death

Well...may be seeing the title, the top of mind's recall for many of the movie buffs like me would be just one thing.. "not another story" that has become a phenomena in many movies now a days. I can assure you guys not to be afraid as what i want to say is no where connected to it.

So, Life after death,,seems a very interesting topic, as it is something that humans till date could not understand but would love to know. The question is there a life after death? The spiritual answer to it is yes as many of our vedas say that there is existence of heaven and hell where one has to redeem the benefits of karma or may be fulfill the requirements of karma on a case to case basis. This is in fact widely believed and acclaimed in western part of the world too. So, is that the end of story.. I do not think so..

I think whole of the vedas and all our rich cultural framework by many religions that has been passed to us is something that is more logical and fundamental to the existence of human nature than what we think about them.

Lets take an example, just imagine if there is no doctrine of karma in existence, the way people behave would be very different and may be we would be more like wild animals preying on each other and think only about survival. but that is not the case, as we think, use our rational brains to draw conclusions on what we think is right and correct. Such is the power of karma, which is actually explained in the from of heaven and hell so that even a common man can understand that.

So, coming back to the main discussion after a bit of digression, is life there after death? I do not know whether there is rebirth/hell/heaven, but i believe that there is life after death. Just think of few persons who we like/ take inspiration from, who motivate us, who we look upon. I bet that not many of them are living physically, not many of them we see in our daily lives, but even in their physical absence, they live with us, they live in our minds, thoughts and our hearts. This is life which is irrelevant to death according to me.

This the power to influence not with the physical presence but just with the sheer action of deeds/ words. These things cannot die as there is no death to them. They exist everywhere and it is up to to us to find them and pour life into them and make them what they actually are : ETERNAL

Questions from mind..& heart..

Well, here comes the question I have in my mind from a very long time and recently formed a structure that helped me to understand the content and depth in a better way.

The eternal question is why we humans want to be free of everything that we assumed would bring peace and harmony to the society. The question is why we want to break the rules that we set for proper functioning of the system as a whole. The question is why we do not like ourselves for what we are and yearns to be someone else and in the process lose ourselves. The question is why we consider the most joyous moments are the ones in which we forget who we are. The question is why we like chaos.

Just for example, consider Mumbai local trains. The process to aboard a train is full of chaos, where people take pride in shouting, running ruthlessly, abusing others and thus making hell of a situation.

Is that we are so obsessed with the rules that we make for more controlled situations control us in a manner that we no longer remember the purpose of existence of the same rules. Is that what we want is a place to vent our frustrations and do not care about the guy in the other end for even a second, and carry on with the life as if it didn’t happen or it doesn’t matter.

Well who knows, gods must be really crazy and intelligent to develop us to what we are now...

Excellence

Yes, Excellence. I think it is not just a term, it is a process. If u ask me to give the best example for it, my answer would be Nature. Every process that nature adopts is an example of Excellence in doing things. Achieving it is quite a difficult task that involves lot of things that every HR personnel emphasises(donno how far they follow their own principles). So, here I'm mentioning this after watching a movie called 3 Idiots. As usual like previous Rajkumar Hirani and Vidu vinod chopra combination the movie is filled with humour that tries to convey something, be it heartful nature or Gandhian values. I think this time they have decided to show Excellence as their value and for this they chose Aamir khan as he's appropriate for Excellence in his own way. So, roughly the takeaway from the film is Excellence is followed by Success, though one has to be patient.
Now, we in our daily lives see lot of individuals, but somehow we perceive some of them to be quite satisfactory than others. This may be because of two reasons, one they don't care where their lives are going and the other who care, plan and execute what they think, plan to achieve. In this movie we see all the idiots excelling in whatever field they select. So, we care or maybe envy people like them and today I have heard a lecture from a person like him for the second time. The most engrossing part in the whole lecture was the way he was able to connect and cover the various issues that are arising out of discussion.I wish him all the luck and from bottom of my heart thank him for letting us know the things in a very interesting manner.
So, may be to become like them, we have to ask some of the toughest questions like what do we expect from life. Hope we get answers soon.