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moral and ethical principles is considered beneficial and as such a person should desire for a life of selfrestraint and nourish and prolong it so long as he feels that he is achieving newer and newer spiritual height by means of his living. It is living a life governed by not fate, but individual choice.
Human body is a composition of pudgals. Integration and disintegration of pudgal takes place continuously. Thus body is subject to disease, old age and death of which death is most basic, most universal and inescapable. A diseased or disabled body is demanding and thereby rise of various karma and thereby deterioration in the scale of spirituality.All diseases are due to lust for life. Lust for life is the greatest fear and debars to know the real meaning of life and becomes only a means to stop death. Life is a journey from birth to death. Death is a part of life. Life cannot exist without death, neither can death exist without life. The body is a shadow, one who takes birth has to leave it one day. One is not it. This is the law of nature, none can escape it. There is no science which can stop death. Medicines cure but it cannot prevent death. Nectar is imagery. Poisons are definite. Desire is always desire for life. Everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die. Death means deep sleep. Death is the negation of that which is negative and affirmation of that which is positive. Man suppresses the awareness of having to die although this is an ever present reality. Every day a little of our life is taken from us - we are dying every day - the final hour when we cease to exist does not of itself bring death, it is merely completes the death process. We fears what is not to be feared and feel safe what is not safe. For it is not death that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death. The horrors
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