Without understanding All That Be, we live-die sans closure.
How so? Well, analogically, it's akin the case of an adopted orphan, who, though adjusting fine with his foster family, nevertheless feels an inexplicable pang in his heart to find his biological parents. We have heard of, and read about many a case world over, wherein a man or a woman has searched for his or her biological family for years and years. Sometimes finding it, other times not. Seeking closure of some sort.
It is "closure" that we humans seek, in worldly and other worldly matters.
In other words, we seek answers. To all mundane, and metaphysical, questions that vex us. Lacking closure, that is, unable to get the necessary answer to vital questions that trouble us endlessly, most of us are ever ill at ease, perhaps ceaselessly unhappy. To the extent that we live and die similarly - never at peace with ourselves, or with the world at large.
Hence, we live-die a wrong, wrongly, or a wining wronged thing. Homeless.
Yet it may be said that even a religious nutcase could die happily. For, he or she could believe that a place in heaven is guaranteed him or her just because one has followed one's faith fully. Despite the fact that throughout his or her whole life, all one may have been doing could be merely being a bigot, a buffoon, a beastly bully.
Alternatively, an atheist may live-die happily too. For, unlike the believers, he-she may think we are all a nothing, come-gone a non. A bio-chemical something, maybe not even a thing.
Others with some different ideas about the Ultimate Reality, may well believe that they come from such and such place, and are going thereof, to their tribal god. And that the rest of the people are going to hell, for they are the non-believing lot!
Therefore, each of us is capable of living-dying an untruth.
Then again, it may be asked, "What difference does it make how we live? Knowing, or not knowing What Is? For, eventually, none escapes. And we all die, don't we?"
So, it may not be too illegitimate to think that one could just do whatever the hell one likes - good, bad, ugly or even evil. And that all gods are fairy tales of foolish men! Hence, we are all free to do whatever, however, ever and forever! With no consequences! For, there is no meaning to life, is there?
The Truth is nobody's keep.
It is what it is. So, what is the Universal Truth? That which would be true in all times, at all times, for all times, be it of the past or even in the future? Till the end of times.
From Self-Realization, the postulated Eternal Truth of Life - as known to the sages, yogis, sufis, and unbound spiritual freethinkers and freemystics of the world, especially that of India since the ancient times - in all ages through, every time, is this:
- All is One, Whole.
- Hence, in essence, all's one.
- Therefore, all life is One Life.
- The seen world is a transitory mirage, in One.
- ONE 'that' IS, is indivisible, ever whole, and infinite.
- Born of Infinity, all is forever an unending panorama, till eternity.
- This Forever-ness, from which all is seemingly born, can be known.
- "It" - the Ultimate Reality and Truth - is the birthright of all that is born.
- Hence, we, as human beings, in due karmic period and time, can "get" What Is. For, born of "It", its wholesomeness cannot be denied to us.
- This process is called SELF-REALIZATION. Herein, a blessed and a chosen devotee is "taken" to the Within. And in due time, maybe after innumerable births, one's self-essence is "shown" to be All That Is.
- Thereafter, the self-realized "knowing one", gets it - that at the quantum level, in quintessence, being inseparable from the Whole - the One in All is neither born nor dies. And is ever One, Whole.
- "Tat tvum asi!" - THAT YOU ARE! Beyond the persistent illusion, of the "here" seen mirage of manifest life, we are the forever-ness of existence. Come, nor gone!
Thereby live, die accordingly.
Ever at peace with others, the world, and with ourselves.
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