Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come....
Rabindranath Tagore
From Dada on 14/04/2015
Death is nothing at all...
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I and you are you -
Whatever we were to each other,
That we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way you always used,
Put no difference into your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow,
Laugh as we always laughed -
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together...
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me...
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was -
Let it be spoken without effort,
Without the ghost of a shadow in it.
Life means all that it ever meant,
It is the same as it ever was,
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near...
Just around the corner...
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost...
One brief moment and all will be as it was before!
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting
when we meet again!
'Death Is Nothing At All' by Canon Henry Scott-Holland
20th July 2014
When dear ones are parted by death, mortal memory may fail to recall the pledges of love they made; but true love never forgets, nor does it die. For incarnations, it escapes from the heart of one form and enters that of another, pursuing the beloved, fulfilling all its promises until the emancipation of those souls in Eternal Love.
Paramahamsa Yogananda on Eternal Love
15th July 2014