Some people, especially those who like to lead peaceful, uncluttered lives or who practice meditation, wonder why all this publicity and\u00a0brouhaha<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0They are happy to live with a quiet feeling of being alone and isolated and feel that this helps them to communicate with the God or Deity of the faith they follow. Others \u2014 poets, philosophers, scientists also tend to not pay too much attention to the social media and stay focused on their occupations.<\/p>\n Reverting to the desire of knowing what one\u2019s friends are doing, how is their health, their family life and so on, people tend to communicate through the modern technology that is available. When one gets to know about their anniversary or about the marriage of their son or daughter, birth of their grandchildren, one wishes them and occasionally sends them an appropriate gift.<\/p>\n But when an email or a phone call is not responded to, one wonders what could be the possible cause. Is the person ill or hospitalised or who knows \u2014 has passed away. One feels curious and concerned. The inevitable thought of the friend\u2019s demise also leads to sadness, nostalgia. A class mate of mine living in USA responded after several weeks, stating that he was hospitalised but was feeling better now. Another friend\u2019s wife informed through FB (she did not have my email id) that her husband had passed away in Chicago USA, a few weeks back. To say that I felt sad would be an understatement.<\/p>\n Similarly, two of my relatives who were also in USA, informed through internet that they had had heart problems, had been hospitalised, were now feeling better and were leading\u00a0\u00a0normal<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0lives.<\/p>\n Another thought that passed my mind was that since USA did not face much pollution as in India, had excellent healthcare and hospital facilities, how could one explain the situations that I learnt about my friends and relatives? Moreover, \u00a0several varieties of nutritious foods and juices were available, then why these life and\u00a0\u00a0health issues? Perhaps because people generally did not do Yoga despite the fact that the UN had decided to call 21 June as the\u00a0International day of Yoga on\u00a0<\/em>the proposal made by India five years back.<\/p>\n Life is full of happiness, uncertainties, challenges, sadness. Death is an inevitable part of life \u2014 the closure of life. How one manages to live peacefully under these conditions requires inner strength, a philosophical attitude, belief in one\u2019s God. The Hindu treatise\u00a0Bhagwad Gita<\/em>\u00a0says that everything happens for a good reason. It adds that<\/p>\n \u2018One who has taken birth is sure to die, but after death one is certain to be born again\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n With this knowledge, one should not grieve too much at the death of any dear one. Let us live peacefully, harmoniously, meaningfully in the life that we are born in.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________<\/p>\n The Hindu treatise Bhagwad Gita says that everything happens for a good reason. It adds that \u2018One who has taken birth is sure to die, but after death one is certain to be born again\u2019. With this knowledge, one should not grieve too much at the death of any dear one. Let us live peacefully, harmoniously, meaningfully in the life that we are born in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[272,290,1177,1170],"class_list":["post-147290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-cooperation","tag-culture","tag-inspirational","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/em>Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"