By D N Singh
Death, as interpreted by many, is a kind of emancipation or freedom from the mundane predispositions by merging with the cosmic. However, looking at what goes on in certain religious quarters, death precedes pain and then purification of the departed soul through rituals and traditional practices in an extremely symbolic process. when faith and fear of God get intricately blended. What makes it more painful for the ones who observe the rituals with rigor and avoidable pain appear pandering to certain whims codified by imperial outlooks of priests who keep changing the patterns suitable to the clients or ‘jazman’.
Which connotes that it is all without any norms or divine specifications or Dos and Undos laid down in any epic or scripture.
In nut shell, all the post death exercises have nothing to do with any serious objective nor has it to do anything with inter – soul
communication.
Stay half – fed or otherwise going through rigors of penance more often than not appear regressive for the bereaved who suffer infliction of huge physical and financial pain. When one died is dead, and there exists no evidence of soul to be immortal so that one can appease them through slew of bigotries .The priests try to create a smoke-screen of existence of the soul in a sphere of nothingness to fleece the believers in cash and kind. If soul is immortal then where do those countless souls go or if they merge
with the cosmic then they remain no part of the living system or anything around. They get lost in nothingness. Lose life and one would never lose anything again for ever.
Whereas, what appears to be the hard truth that death is the end of a process and there was nothing before that and there is nothing after that. Soul or spirit etc appear to be a part of nomenclature only. The loser knows the pain while enforcing post death penance are parts of symbolism that has nothing to do with the reality. Only memories remain and nothing else leaving the bereaved in a state of ‘ lightness of being’ .
It is only premonitory calm and loneliness .
