II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

जीवन थैं मरिबो भलौ, जो मरि जानैं कोइ I
मरनैं पहली जे मरै, तो कलि अजरावर होइ II

"Kabir says, we need to learn and practice the art of death, before we are overpowered by it. Life and death, joy and sorrows, pain and pleasure, etc., are real to the man in bondage. But to the truly wise, they are all in the world-play. Blinded by ignorance we feel sad when faced with death because we identify ourself with the finite frame of the body. In other words, a truly wise thinks himself to be the Soul and has a body. To the contrary, the majority of us think we are the body and have a Soul. So long there is identification with the gross body, there will be the fear of loss and death. But the same death fills the mind of the wise with Bliss; for he knows at last he is going to his True Home! 
The truly wise takes this body and the material world as only a reflection of the Supreme Reality. However, most of us take this body and the world real (permanent), and live our life cycle only to find death at the end.To the contrary, the truly wise takes the life cycle backwards; he dies first, thus gets the death out of the way, and then he goes on living as Jeevanmukta. Kabir wants us to understand that what comes and goes is unreal. That which is Real never dies, and that which dies is not Real. Since the mind of the truly wise is already dead, he has no reaction to death. For him it's natural for the body to die, as it is natural for the incense stick to burn out. Therefore, the event of death itself is of no importance to the truly wise.
As long as one identifies with the body and the world of gross objects, there will be the constant fear of death and of losing one's possessions. It's through the Guru's Grace that one can hope to get relief from the fear of death. God is not to be reached by the fearful mind. Thus, unless one turns inward and seeks Self-realization, one cannot hope to attain communion with God."

II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

II श्रीसद्गुरूचरणार्पणमस्तु II