Quote about Death
2007-01-14 05:00 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Sri Chinmoy, Quotes, inspiration, Spirituality
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"Death is not the end. Death can never be the end."
"Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The soul is the guide."
"When the traveller is tired and exhausted, the guide instructs the traveller to take either a short or a long rest, and then again the traveller's journey begins."
Death is feared by many people, as an extinction of their life breath, or at least a journey into the unknown. To many death is something to avoid talking about, due to its association with suffering, pain and bereavement.
Many of the great Seer Poets have immortalised death, turning it from an object of fear into a subject of change and transition.
Jaluludin Rumi makes this most significant statement.
A stone I died and rose again a plant; A plant I died and rose an animal; I died an animal and was born a man. Why should I fear? What have I lost by death?
Unfortunately in the west the idea of reincarnation is not widely believed in but in the Hindu and Buddhist tradition reincarnation is a key part of their philosophy. In the Bible there are definitely references to reincarnation, although the early Christian church decided reincarnation would be a concept too difficult to teach, so it became sidelined.
Emily Dickinson was fascinated with the concept of death, many of her poems touch on this theme in an intriguing fashion.
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Because I could not stop for death - Emily Dickinson
More Poems on death at Poetseers
Other poems on death by Sri Chinmoy
Photo credit: Unmesh Swanson Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
