To know death is immortality .

My understanding of this proverb is the following. To understand what death is in reality can sober a person to strive during one’s life for self realization and liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Birth, death, old age and disease are artificial impositions on the eternal soul of a person. No one consciously chooses them, nor likes them. They happen regardless of a person’s free will.

There is a saying in English, “As sure as death.” The inevitability of death cannot be denied by anyone. Therefore, one should not waste even a minute on diversions of mundane engagements that obscure the one inevitable fact of life; we are born and we shall die. We should use our short time of life to understand who we are, where we came from and where we shall go after death. Such knowledge is available for the seeker who understands its value and uses his precious time to access it.