Who Dies?

For years, I’ve been asking myself what is the purpose of life? Why are we born? So that we can die? It doesn’t seem to make any sense at all, does it? But for certain, when we see people dying, we’ll be reminded of the reality that life is impermanent.

Whenever you witness death, does the sense of insecurity heighten in you? Does the fear of dying intensify? My readings have taught me not to fear death because to fear death will lead me to fear life. It is the ego that fears losing the ‘I’. We must shed this ego and ask ourselves, who is this ‘I’? Only then will we be able to live without fearing the unknown, without fearing death. And only then will we know how to live.

Peter Richelieu has given many people a different perspective to life through his ‘A Soul’s Journey’. His multiple out-of-body experiences and journeys to the astral planes suggest that there is life after death. When we die, we just cast off our body like old clothes and put on new ones subsequently. Although we may not be able to authenticate his claims, it has given us some hope, some assurance that there is really more beyond this physical world, beyond this body or shell of ours.

I am here now in this temporary body to learn. This body is not me. This mind is also not me. Who then is the real me?

Today I’ve been reminded again to live everyday like it’s the last day of my life.

“It is because you believe you are born that you fear death. Who is it that was born? Who is it that dies? Look within. What was your face before you were born? Who you are, in reality, was never born and never dies. Let go of who you think you are and become who you have always been.” – Stephen and Ondrea Levine