Once
Yudhistir Maharaj answered the question asked by Yakshya ‘What is the
most amazing thing in the world?’ He answered that every living entities
who are embodied are sure to die one day but they never thinks (realize)
that he will die one day. It means that every person behaves as if he
is going to survive forever in that body. Actually this is no less than
the mystery. In one hand our life is too short and in other hand we
behave as if we are never going to die.
Recently there took a big bus accident near my place. (article was written in 2011) Many people
died. It was really the most painful event of the day. It was hard for
us to believe but that was the bitter truth and could not be denied nor be reverted back. I couldn't sleep that
night. Although I was trying hard to sleep but I couldn’t. The same fact
was moving around the globe of my thought more and more. I was asking question to myself from various angles . Meanwhile I realized that I am also going to die one day, may be earlier or later. Although I think myself as immortal in this body but my body
can meet at destruction at any time. There may take some big earthquake
and I may die on the spot.Even those pessenger who died in accident might have never thought that they will die in a minute. Suddenly accident took place and they
died. In the same way every one of
us think that we will not die but bitter death may love us just after a
minute or hour or day. This particular point was all convincing.
We
have got our own respective body. In scriptural viewpoint our soul has
been dwelling in our body now. Our body may encounter unexpected
accident at any time in the future. We may be the victim of severe heart
attack in a minute. Similarly, we can be shot dead at any time. Furthermore, we may be the victim of traffic accidents or we may die of some
calamities such as earthquake in a minute. After the few second we may
stop breathing forever. Our life is so much uncertain.Scripture rightly
call this world as the house of miseries and nothing is permanent here.
Thus , we, who feel too much proud of this uncertain body are actually
the fool. Only thing we can do is preparing for nice afterlife which is nothing other than taking shelter of Supreme Personality of Godhead , Sri Krishna .
