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Spiritual Awakening: Breaking the Hold that Death has on us

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Death evokes a terrible mix of emotions in us. It creates a hauntingly complex maze of experience when we contemplate it. One day a person is here, gone the next day & then disposed of, even if it is with fanfare as is done in many cultures. The individual bristling with goals, ambitions, and desires gets extinguished in an instant, just like that. The loss is usually overwhelming for surviving family & friends who grapple with the heart-rending loss. Not that gradual death due to long-haul sickness or old age gives us any comfort. Then, the most mysterious of all is that where the person goes, we have not been able to fathom all by ourselves and no genuine and authentic messages or concrete information have come from beyond if it exists. We find it hard to accept that their journey was merely a fleeting one ending in just those brief years. Thus we make up a lot of stories & key into endless philosophies and beliefs to explain that they continue to exist. That we will disc...