Death is a spontaneously occurring phenomenon in nature. Dried leaves fall of the branches they once blossomed on. Watch a leopard hunt a deer on a deer hunt video. After an intense and long sprint, the deer which was ahead and more nimble than the leopard, at one point becomes exhausted. He just stops in his tracks panting due to the exhaustion. The leopard is close by; he knows the deer is his now. He leaps forward and grabs the deer by its neck and sinks its incisors in his windpipe. He is going to choke him to death. Watch the deer – he is hardly struggling now. Except for the sharp physical pain when the leopard’s incisors rupture his windpipe, his eyes show a complete acceptance of his fate and conversely death. It is all very quick and matter-of-fact. There is no dithering on either side.
There are scores of instances in the animal, plant, and the insect world which confirm the matter-of-factness of life. Display of joy, affection, anger, hatred, life, and death is all in-your-face. No sycophancy or hypocrisy. In fact, the wholehearted acceptance of life and death is an indelible mark of pure consciousness itself. To that extent, one must be prepared to die the very next instant if that is what is ordained – or conversely one must be prepared to live passionately this very moment if that acceptance is of death is to come naturally whenever the moment of bidding a goodbye to all the credit comes!
On the lighter side though, one can set out a marker of one’s brief sojourn in this beautiful world at www. deathclock.com - for all it is worth – and debit the corresponding years you have already enjoyed!
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