The best life is spent preparing for death.
Plato
Tag: Death
Brahman creates the game of life by breaking…
Brahman creates the game of life by breaking Himself into parts that undergo transformation and extinction. Yet while he takes on all the roles required by the game, He also always remains free of the game and intact as Brahman.
Abhinava Gupta
Do not go gentle into that good night…
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953
Only put off until tomorrow what you’re willing…
Only put off until tomorrow what you’re willing to die having left undone.
-Pablo Picasso
Last Curtain by Rabindranath Tagore
I know that the day will come
when my sight of this earth shall be lost,
and life will take its leave in silence,
drawing the last curtain over my eyes.
Yet stars will watch at night,
and morning rise as before,
and hours heave like sea waves
casting up pleasures and pains.
When I think of this end of my moments,
the barrier of the moments breaks
and I see by the light of death
thy world with its careless treasures.
Rare is its lowliest seat,
rare is its meanest of lives.
Things that I longed for in vain
and things that I got
—let them pass.
Let me but truly possess
the things that I ever spurned
and overlooked.
The poem ‘Last Curtain’ explains the vulnerability one feels at the time of death. The actual treasures one can take to the grave are none but his deeds of good. The poem conveys the message that the things that matter the most at death, are those virtues that are considered as least important by many men during their lives.