What is death?

Death is a

facility 

and 

opportunity 

to have the most beautiful life.

In general terms death is horrible.

No One wants to die, how much everyone is suffering, still they want to live.

Even animals also do not want to die.

Question is ,why this feeling of living long or eternal is there in all living entities?

Life is full of struggle and dissatisfaction and filled with various miseries , still why we want to live?

The reason is the "eternity aspect of the SOUL".

Lord sri Krishna explains in the holy texts of srimad bhagavad gita 15:7,

mamaiväàço jéva-loke

jéva-bhütaù sanätanaù

manaù-ñañöhänéndriyäëi

prakåti-sthäni karñati

Translation:

The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.

All the living entities from all species of life, from all over the cosmos are "part and parcel" of the Supreme lord sri Krishna.

Therefore being His part we also possess all the godly qualities, as a drop of ocean being a part and parcel of ocean, consists all the qualities of ocean.

But quantitatively drop is very very insignificant compared to ocean,similarly we are also very very insignificant compare to God.

We cannot be God,but godly.

Since God being Supreme spirit is eternal in nature , so are we too.

Therefore the tendency to live eternal exist in all living entities.

But as it is explained by Supreme Lord Sri Krishna, in the above verse(sloka), that due to our conditioned life, we are embodied in the material body of matter ,which undergoes changes.

Therefore death means, giving up the current existential conditional state of body and accepting another existential conditioned state of  body, according to one's consciousness at the time of death.

In the holy texts of Srimad Bhagavad Gita 8:5, Lord Sri Krishna say:

anta-käle ca mäm eva

smaran muktvä kalevaram

yaù prayäti sa mad-bhävaà

yäti nästy atra saàçayaù

Translation:

And whoever, at the time of death, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.

Therefore death is a facility for us either to continue or end our conditioned state of existence.

To end our conditioned life Lord Sri Krishna has given formula in the above quoted verse,

He say that whoever thinks of HIM(only) at the time of death will attain His nature, which full of eternity,knowledge and bliss.

We have decide what we want eternal life of happiness or conditioned life of distress?

Most beautiful life of eternity, knowledge and bliss is awaiting us after death if we decide to become Krishna Conscious and go back to home, back to Godhead.

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