Amar Vani

Author(s): Amarmuni
Publisher: Sanmati Gyan Pith Agra

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a change. He alone should fear this change (death) who is involved in sins, who is bereft of DHARMA, whose light of humanity has gone out and before whose eyes injustice, attachment and ignorance have drawn a curtain of darkness. The change that leads you to the path of spiritual progress and which brings you to the portals of spiritual enlightenment should be heartily welcome. If the highest spiritual ambition of your life has not been fulfilled in this life, it may be fulfilled in the life to come. The spiritual light of your penance will continue to shine life after life.
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When Pandit Guru Dutt, the famous scholar and leader of Arya Samaj of Panjab was breathing his last, and when death was knocking at his door, people asked him, "Why are you so happy at this moment ?" He smiled and replied, "I could not be Dayanand in this life, but in the next and better life I shall try to be Dayanand." People were wonder-struck at this reply.
Jaina scholars have also held a similar view. One of them called death 'a great festival.' Mahadevi Verma, the renowned poetess also says, "Take your barque to the sea, drown yourself in the sea if you want to cross it."
But if death appears to be a foe to you, and not a friend, then come forward, fight with it and conquer it, if you can. Why are you afraid, why do you hesitate? Do you think that if you tremble with fear and prostrate before it, death will spare you? No, never, death will not spare
anyone.