Continued From:
http://tdsinghharjidamarg.blogspot.com/2016/12/173-end-death-in-light-of-dhan-shri.htmlSo far we have learnt, by grace of Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, that ‘Death and Its Messengers’ are merciless; but there is more to ‘Death’s’ Nature. It does give physical and mental pain to ‘false beings’ as per ‘Gurbaani’. So before we get into what is false and true in light of Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, it is important to understand what else ‘Death’ does other than humiliation? What ‘Death’ does that mortals are scar of it? This will help to understand ‘Death’, though mortals like us are limited with comprehension but every one does understand the pain. Once the pain is understood only then journey begins to find the nature of pain, causes of pain and eventually a search to overcome the pain.
Dhan Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji
says following:
अनिक दूख देवहि अवरा कउ ॥
(Death
gives so much pain to others.)
‘Death’ causes ‘Separation - Vichora’ of
and from near and dear ones. And separation results in pain. As per ‘Gurbaani’
separation is felt by those who are engrossed in ‘Duality’. They have
attached themselves to ‘Other’ not to ‘The One’. Those who are
attuned to ‘The One’ acknowledge ‘Death’ as ‘HIS Will’. Such emotional
attachement becomes the reason of immense pain when so called near or dear one
dies. Dhan Shri Guru Raam Das Ji gives insight into cause if such
pain in following words:
महा बिखमु जम पंथु दुहेला कालूखत मोह अंधिआरा ॥
(The
path of Death
is very arduous and painful; it is stained with the darkness of emotional
attachment.)
जगि मरणु न
भाइआ
नित
आपु
लुकाइआ
मत
जमु
पकरै
लै
जाइ
जीउ
॥२॥
(The
people of the world do not like death; they try to hide from it. They are
afraid that the Messenger
of Death may catch them and take them away.)
Dhan Shri Guru Nanak
Dev Ji further says following:
जम मारग पंथु न सुझई उझड़ु अंध गुबारोवा ॥
(The
path of death
is dark and dismal; the way cannot be seen.)
किउ दुतरु तरीऐ जम डरि मरीऐ जम का पंथु दुहेला ॥
(How
can the impassible world-ocean be crossed? The fear of the Messenger of Death is deadly. The
path of Death
is agonizingly painful.)
‘Gurbaani’ has been firm on declaring
‘Death’
causing pshychological trauma. The basic mistake mortals seem to be doing is to
ignore ‘The End’. They wrongly belive ‘Death’ cannot touch them. And
what happens, indulgence in ‘futile’ action, just wasting
precious human life and breath in dismal way. Well such activities can elude an
individual to believe, that’s why called them delusional, that he has
incapacitated the fear of death. But in fact fear never vanishes leading to
further indulgence in such activities and resulting in addition of more and
more filth. Infact his desires never end, even when ‘Death’ is knocking at his
door, as said by Dhan Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji and Dhan Shri Guru Amar Das Ji
in following words:
छोडि चलै त्रिसना नही बुझै ॥२॥
(He
shall have to leave it in the end, and yet his desire is still not
satisfied.)
त्रिसना मूलि न चुकई अंति गए पछुताहि ॥२॥
(their
desires are never satisfied, and they depart grieving in the end.)
The question, that comes to mind why
desires don’t die? Dhan Shri Guru Nana Dev Ji answers in following words:
एकु मरै पंचे मिलि रोवहि ॥
(When
someone dies,
the five passions meet and mourn his death.)
‘Death’ of an individual does not
mean that passions will end. They will continue to exist. And that explains
desires don’t end. Passions can only be overcome by ‘Meditating on The Naam – The One’.
All the pains we hae looked so far are related to pshychology. Now we look at what
‘Death’
does to physical. As per Dhan Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji:
हथ मरोड़ै तनु कपे सिआहहु होआ सेतु ॥
(She wrings her hands, her body
writhes in pain, and she turns from black to white)
‘Last Moment’ body is striving hard
for air but since ‘Death’ is cutting supply of oxygen body reacts. Hand begins to twist
and body shivers, a struggle by tissues to stay alive. Lack of oxygen makes the
body to turn ‘pale’. ‘Death’ strangles an individual and
what happens next is told by Dhan Shri Guru Teg Bhadur Ji in
following words:
काल फास जब गर महि मेली तिह सुधि सभ बिसराई ॥
(When
Death
places the noose around my neck, then I lose all my senses.)
An individual looses control on the
senses, the very senses he has lived to gratify himself. ‘Death’ gives him that
realization. It gives him a glimpse of what is truth and what is not. Dhan
Shri Guru Teg Bhadur Ji describes it in following words:
जम को डंडु परिओ सिर ऊपरि तब सोवत तै जागिओ ॥
(When
Death's
club falls on my head, then I will be wakened from my sleep.)
Dhan Shri Guru Raam Das Ji
says in following words that what ever he does in life they eventually realizes
it.
आइआ कालु दुखदाई होए जो बीजे सो खवलावैगो ॥६॥
(And
when death
comes, they suffer in agony; they must eat what they have planted.)
Can it be called awakening? That is just
for a moment; it is just a realization of the actions being done throughout the
life. Well, that is more like showing mirror to an individual. What ever he has
done was under delusion. He was under ‘sleep of ignorance’. Actual
awakening happens when he dies in ‘The Naam’. If he has not practiced ‘Meditating
on The Naam’, then he will not be able to do so when the end comes as
per Dhan
Shri Guru Raam Das Ji words above and as said by Kabeer Ji in following
words:
आवै अंतु न भजिआ जाई ॥
(When
the end
comes, you will not be able to vibrate and meditate on Him.)
And when breathes
stops, what happens? Every one knows that. As per Kabeer Ji and Ravidaas
Ji:
अंत की बार गगरीआ फोरी ॥३॥
(But
in the end,
the pitcher of the body bursts.)
अंति निबेरा तेरे जीअ पहि लीजै ॥१॥ रहाउ ॥
(In
the end,
your own soul shall have to answer for its account.)
सो तनु जलै काठ कै संगा ॥१॥
(But
in the end,
that body will be burned with the firewood.)
साढे तीनि हाथ तेरी सीवां ॥२॥
(But
in the end, three and a half cubits will be your measured space.)
इहु तनु होइगो भसम की ढेरी ॥३॥
(But
in the end,
this body shall be reduced to a pile of ashes.)
So, ‘Death’ is pain, ends the
physical manifestation, and does not kill desire. What does it all mean? It
suggests ‘Death’ is just to an end to physical not to passions, which
drives the physical. Hence it is not all powerful. There has to be ‘Someone’
or ‘Something’
more powerful than it. So, next we will look at ‘Who’ drives ‘Death’
which scares every mortal in light of Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
TO BE CONTINUED!
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