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"Avada Kedavra!", everytime this charm is uttered, someone is bound to die. only once did it happen that someone survived and that was Mr. Potter, Harry Potter. This death charm may have been used several times by the Dark Lord to kill nice innocent people, but in the end, it was Tom Riddle who hit the ground with a mundane finality and layed there dead. Yes, Voldemort was no more. True, that this evil charm has demanded many innocent lives, but its absence would never have made the death of the Dark Lord possible!
Muggles or humans have now spent many millions of years on planet Earth and ever since their very evolution, they have stayed as the dominant creatures on this planet but the very name of 'Death' seems to frighten them because the truth is that, howsoever strong one maybe, no one has been able to conquer death. It is the strongest of all in this material world. Everytime it comes, it leaves behind many broken hearts, shattered hopes and sorrowful days and every man on this planet has always resented it.
However, it is also true that its very presence has helped in eliminating the beasts, the demons, the dacoits and the terrorists for ages.Therefore, we cannot pray for its absolute absence either.
In Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna is shown as saying to Arjuna that after death, one is promoted to a higher planet based on the good deeds he performed during his stay on Earth and the God he worshipped. If however, someone worships the Supreme Lord, Krishna althrough his life and chants "Hare Ram, Hare Ram, Ram Ram, Hare Hare / Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare", then he will be promoted to the Supreme planet i.e., Sri Krishna's planet and from there he will never return back to this earth to live a mortal life and hence, will be freed from the cycle of birth and death.
Thus, the Lord describes death as a gateway to elevated form of life or rather salvation. So, we definitely cannot term 'Death' as an evil but then can we call it a necessity?
In the Battlefield of Kurukshetra, Parthasarthi, Sri Krishna told Arjuna that one's individuality is always preserved; death only frees one from this material body and doesn't kill one's identity......
Today, planet Earth is losing its resources faster than it is able to recover them. Human population has grown to such an extent that our Motherland is finding it difficult to support us. It may sound a little crazy but no one can deny this fact that it is because of 'Death' opening its arms time again that the human race is still existing.
The face of death may seem ugly to all of us, but without its assistance, we would not have able to make this planet more beautiful, technologically advanced and a better place to live in.
"Mom, I'm hungry!"; when a child utters these words to his mother, she immediately serves him food which consists of say, some chicken flesh, porridge, dal and aaloo ki sabji; but where does these come from - they come after the death of some birds and after uprooting some plants. Thus, termination of few lives gives a few more some fuel to survive. This has been the law of nature. From the point of inception of life on this planet, this process has maintained the ecological balance.
Through this article, I have tried my bit to personify 'Death'. I am not supporting it, of course, but I am not cursing its presence either.Like every coin has two sides, 'Death' also has two fronts. However, often the other one is overlooked as one of the fronts is emotionally more intense than the other. Thus, while concluding this article, I would like to throw a question at you - Will you classify 'Death' as an evil or a necessity?
Muggles or humans have now spent many millions of years on planet Earth and ever since their very evolution, they have stayed as the dominant creatures on this planet but the very name of 'Death' seems to frighten them because the truth is that, howsoever strong one maybe, no one has been able to conquer death. It is the strongest of all in this material world. Everytime it comes, it leaves behind many broken hearts, shattered hopes and sorrowful days and every man on this planet has always resented it.
However, it is also true that its very presence has helped in eliminating the beasts, the demons, the dacoits and the terrorists for ages.Therefore, we cannot pray for its absolute absence either.
In Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna is shown as saying to Arjuna that after death, one is promoted to a higher planet based on the good deeds he performed during his stay on Earth and the God he worshipped. If however, someone worships the Supreme Lord, Krishna althrough his life and chants "Hare Ram, Hare Ram, Ram Ram, Hare Hare / Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare", then he will be promoted to the Supreme planet i.e., Sri Krishna's planet and from there he will never return back to this earth to live a mortal life and hence, will be freed from the cycle of birth and death.
Thus, the Lord describes death as a gateway to elevated form of life or rather salvation. So, we definitely cannot term 'Death' as an evil but then can we call it a necessity?
In the Battlefield of Kurukshetra, Parthasarthi, Sri Krishna told Arjuna that one's individuality is always preserved; death only frees one from this material body and doesn't kill one's identity......
Today, planet Earth is losing its resources faster than it is able to recover them. Human population has grown to such an extent that our Motherland is finding it difficult to support us. It may sound a little crazy but no one can deny this fact that it is because of 'Death' opening its arms time again that the human race is still existing.
The face of death may seem ugly to all of us, but without its assistance, we would not have able to make this planet more beautiful, technologically advanced and a better place to live in.
"Mom, I'm hungry!"; when a child utters these words to his mother, she immediately serves him food which consists of say, some chicken flesh, porridge, dal and aaloo ki sabji; but where does these come from - they come after the death of some birds and after uprooting some plants. Thus, termination of few lives gives a few more some fuel to survive. This has been the law of nature. From the point of inception of life on this planet, this process has maintained the ecological balance.
Through this article, I have tried my bit to personify 'Death'. I am not supporting it, of course, but I am not cursing its presence either.Like every coin has two sides, 'Death' also has two fronts. However, often the other one is overlooked as one of the fronts is emotionally more intense than the other. Thus, while concluding this article, I would like to throw a question at you - Will you classify 'Death' as an evil or a necessity?
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