Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Lord Shiva and the Philosophy Associated with Him (Translation of a discourse of Revered Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya)

(Post 19)

(http://literature.awgp.org/akhandjyoti/2004/Jul_Aug/v1.LordShivaPhilosophy

A home and a crematorium are alike for a duty-bound, altruist person, who has acquired pure knowledge.

Such a wise man knows that this moment he is living comfortably in the house, but any other moment he would be no more, and his body would rest in peace in a crematorium or a graveyard; then he will have new life, and a new home, and so on.

Today's life would be tomorrow's death, which would again turn into new life some day. This is how the cycle of life continues.

Life and death are like the relay games of day and night.

Then why should we be scared of death?

Rather, we should remember it, to make our life more meaningful, more useful, more enlightened every day.

This is another significant teaching of Shiva's Philosophy of Life.