We all anticipate a better future; then why not death?

This article has been written based on Paramahamsa Nithyananda's discourse series on 'Shiva Sutras' this year (2008).

Have you observed a boy looking at his elder brother and always would be thinking, 'Ah, it's so nice to be like him, a moustache, a macho look!' When this boy grows up to that age, he begins to think, 'Ah, look at father, it's so wonderful to hold a laptop and go to an office like him'. Like this the story moves on and on.

As we can clearly see in our own lives, we always live on with a clear anticipation of a better future. We constantly feel the years to come would be better than the current time. Swami says very beautifully, 'When we all are in this mode of anticipation of a better future, why can't we look at death as something better than now. Surely, sometime or later in the future, we all will have to face death. So, why not look at it this way, that it is also something to be anticipated as a better future than now!?'

This simple analogy and understanding liberates one from the fear of death. Just allow this understanding to soak into us to only live fearlessly and relaxed.