Death and After Life and its consequences on Life.

We live our lives like a long movie or rather a soap opera. At times in the soap appear few bubbles to tingle and titilate your inner self. You stand there at the bus stop waiting for your transportation and you think "Why am I here?".

The answer is obvious - I am here waiting for the bus that will take me home.

The question and the answer itself are very secondary. What is important is the very formation of the question in ones mind and the feeling and emotion that arises when one asks the question especially when you ask why are we here on this planet, in this country, in the form we are in and doing a job in an office. What is the purpose of life itself?

That is a question that cannot be answered satisfactorily. At least I am not satisfied by most answers of most philosophers and religious person.

However if we approach the topic from another point we may get an inkling into why we should not be here. We should ask what happens after here. We should enquire what happens to us after we die or pass away.

The first few answers may be that we just attain heaven or hell based on our sins or good deeds, or we are reborn as per our karma till we attain moksha which is only a different way of saying the first sentence. Finally few people will say that we cease to exist as the chemical reaction cannot sustain itself in the required direction.

There are not many other explanations. The first theory says do the things that are right according to the text of my religious manual and you will gain heaven or you will burn in hell for eternity.The second theory gives you many chances to follow the religious text by allowing rebirth. But it also asserts the theory of pain if you do not follow the rules laid by the religious text. The third one says that there will be no pain but then you will not exist to experience any

pleasure either.

So if we think we can follow the first theory to take the least risk and ensure heaven, we can be assured that we will make our life hell right now by trying to interpret the religion and the holy books to get the correct meanings of each rule and how it may be applied to our life today.

Then to consider life will end with a fullstop should encourage me to splurge and do all the things my heart desires without much thought about the society and its morals and boundaries.

And yet there is something deep in the heart that says it may not be just that and there might be something after the End. And here I am forced to take a convenient route where I accept that I will splurge and be immoral within the boudries of the society and expect another chance in the next birth as a Dog or worse a worm to undo what I do now.

And there I find the answer to my primary question - I am here to be merry!

Keep smiling!