Ideal Teacher, as Invincible VS Ideal Student, as Fearless !

Right questions are half the battle in Life 

Who am I?
Am I born here merely to be torn away from everyone, and everyone from me?
What dies of me? What is left of me, after Death?


What, if anything, can I do about you, oh ! seemingly Invincible, Inevitable Lord of Death - now, while I am still Alive?


Now, that I have seen your face, oh ! King of Death, 
how can I enjoy? and what can I enjoy?


                                                                            Asks NACHIKETA, 
                                                                            An honest, fearless, determined Teenager !




The Joy of spirit ever abides, 
but not what seems pleasant to the senses. 
Both these, differing in purpose, prompt us to action.


Perennial Joy or Passing pleasures?
This is the choice one is to make always.
Those who are wise recognise this, but not the ignorant.


Ignorant of their own ignorance, 
yet wise in their own esteem, 
those deluded men proud of their vain learning,
go round and round, like blind led by the blind.
Far beyond their eyes, hypnotised by the world of sense, 
opens the way to Immortality.


"When one restrains the senses, stills the mind, rises above I, me and mine,
renounces all the surging selfish desires, and
loosen all the knots strangling his heart; 
the mortal becomes immortal."


"I am my body; when my body dies, I die." 
Living in this superstition, 
they fall Life after Life under My sway.

                                                                                            Answers YAMA
                                                                                            King of Death, as in Katha Upanishad



"Death is a unique surgical procedure designed into the programme of our Life. 
Where, our birth serves as an absolute indication and provides an implied consent as well. The sanity and sanctity of our living determines the anxiety and pain perceived pre and intra-operatively (during Life & Death), post-operative analgesia is guaranteed irrespective of our pain thresholds.


Creation performs Death routinely, religiously and relentlessly to prevent the cancer of physical immortality from plaguing the breathless transformation of energy and also to emphatically demonstrate the futility of clutching and clinging to the illusionary image of physicality of existence, as projected by the senses. 
Surprisingly hypnotised by senses, most of us foolishly choose to ignore the obvious."