To Die is to Live

To die, is to live. To be dead, is to have life. This statement may sound absurd or rather confusing to others, but not to me and to the people who knows what it really means.

To die, is to live.. How could one person live when he dies? When we die, our physical self leaves the world as we living creatures knows it to be and the spirit, unseen as it is to our human eyes, would basically have no base or medium anymore.

The body as the Physical Medium

Most of us believe that when we die, everything about us dies and fades away. Practically, this is true, but to one who is attune to the world we can’t see with our naked eye, only felt by the heart, we know that by dying, the person actually lives on. For then, he or she shed the physical body which encumbers him to be real free, free in mind and spirit, and be united with the ONE who had created and gave us the LIFE, we now so experience. By  dying, we are living the eternal life, for which we have prepared ourselves when we are still humans.

People who die, live on in the memories of his loved ones, in their hearts. He may have lost his physical self, but by dying he transcend that which is human and live on the edges of eternity, where he will await the rise of the new world, the eternal place where the physical encumbrance which besieges the frail human bodies abound. In this new world, those who died, will rise up to live a new and everlasting life, where sadness, pain, misery, pessimism, rudeness and other Pandora-box-output have no place.

The Spirit as the Channel

When someone dies, we should rejoice, for now he has taken his place in the ranks of those who are fulfilling their new life roles..their new life stories. This is truly apt for people who had lived their live to the fullest, who had made the most of their life. This does not mean that they live a happy-go-lucky life. But living life to the fullest means, they had live their life according to God’s will, and that they have not done anyone wrong through their words, deeds or lack of action.

If a person had live his physical life here on earth to the fullest, then there’s no reason why families should not rejoice his peaceful departure from this mortal world. That is something all of us should aspire, a peaceful, swift departure to the beyond. A person could only attain that if he is already ready to face the eternal world, face God and leave the life he had led. And to be ready means, to do what you should do without hurting or causing anyone harm, and to be happy and contented with what you have and be ready at all times to face the consequence of your past actions, with dignity and pride. Pride in the sense that in your journey through life, attaining the best for you and your family, you have not cause any pain or harm to anyone, not intentionally.

To die, is to live, do you understand it now? Only then, when we are at the entrance of that long, black tunnel where there is light just at the end of it, when everything that happened slowly flashbacks before our  very eyes, can we then say, that  dying  is indeed living.