How are some people fearless of death?
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What if some people say that they are not afraid of death also? Fearlessness can come because of transcendence and fearlessness can come also because of ignorance. You know, if somebody is on a 50-storey building and they don’t know what happens if you jump from the 50-storey building. Of course, the human body itself is structured in a way that we feel fear at that time.
But the point is if somebody doesn’t know about the dangers of a particular situation, then they may be fearless. But that is out of ignorance. So, somebody is dry.
Some people, you know, when they are dry they are like speed demons. Just get a thrill in driving super fast. Now, generally, if they are provided an education about what kind of accidents can happen, what kind of, you know, they may get injured, they may get paralyzed, they may kill someone.
When they are told about that, then they start regulating themselves. Oh, you know, I want some adventure of driving, but I don’t want it at this cost, at this risk. So, there can be fearlessness, which is because of ignorance.
It is not actually fearlessness, it is just foolhardiness. people who say that I have no fear of death, they basically don’t know what death is. They may think that okay, death simply means end of my life and end of my existence.
But that is not what death is. Our existence is going to go on and the rupture of the soul from the body is a very painful experience for the soul because the soul is very attached to the body. Actually, that is only the beginning of the pain.
Because after that the soul also has to get karmic reactions, go to some other body. So, there was an American comedian, Woody Allen, he said it’s not that I am afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Laughter No, it’s not that death is an event that is going to happen to someone else and you can avoid that.
It’s like say a hurricane is going to hit this place, just go to some other place at that time. No, death is something which is going to happen to us because we are in this body and we are attached to this body. So, the thing that there is a Russian, there is a Greek philosopher, he said, there is a materialist philosopher, he said, I am not afraid of death.
Why? Because when I am here, death is not there. When death is here, I will not be there. This sort of wordplay is not going to actually help at the time of death.
Laughter So, people who say that they are not afraid of death, they are simply ignorant of what comes after death. So, that is something which is unfortunate because death is meant to remind us of our mortality and it is meant to prompt us to