What my friend Descartes said is right

“Whom or what

Do you really love?

 

Me or my body?”

 

He asked the people

Visiting him and standing

Around his bed

Sympathizing on him.

 

“Dear my friends,

Don't you see me

Laying on this bed

Chewing and swallowing

Only the pain?

Can't you see

The pain of my body

Has turned me to be sick?”

 

“For sure, Master,

We are all pained

To see you laying sick

Eating only the pain

And living to eat

Only the pain.

 

“Dear Master,

We all love you.

For sure,

We all love you only;

Not and never your body.

And never have we loved a body

That will perish for sure.”

 

“Dear my friends,

Do you all think

Loving a thing or a body

Of perishing nature

Is and will be foolish?

Sheer futility?”

 

“Yes master, yes.

That is why

We consider you

As not perishing,

Except your body.

And the body

We don’t love”

 

“Dear my friends,

Don't you all think

No one is by his body,

So, I too not by my body?"

 

"Yes, Master, yes,

We have no other reason

To think otherwise.

 

“As for us,

You have to be

Not your body only.

Body is and could be yours;

But, you are not

And you can never be

Only of your body."

 

"Also, dear my friends,

So, you all do think and believe

That one’s body is and has to be

Separate and different from him.

So, I am also separate and different

From my body?

 

"Yes Master yes, 

For no doubt,

You have to be, for sure,

Different and separate

From your body."

  

"If so, dear my friends,

Don't you all think

That one’s body will perish

And "he" or "I" in that body

Will remain and survive

With the same feel of “I”

That he or I had while alive

With our bodies?"

 

“Yes, Master, yes.”

 

"Then, dear my friends,

You all firmly think  and believe

One is or was born

 With the same "I" feel

That he will die with?

Or, you all firmly think and believe

One is dying with the same "I" feel

He is or he was born with. Right?"

 

"Master,

Has it not to be like that?

We get confused,

And we are now confused

To hear you rising such a question."

 

“Don’t you see, then, my dear friends,

That I am eating only the pain

With my body happened to be sick?

 

If what you say and claim is true

That you all love me, not my body,

Why can’t you all help and save me

From the pain and confinement

Of this sick body

By killing this my mere body?

Especially if you are sure

I am separate from my body,

And I can exist separate

From my body?”

 

 "If I will, for sure, survive,

And if only my body is perishing, 

No one will be lost or missed

By killing this body mine;

Whereas, you can save me

From the pain I am made to

Eat and swallow for no good,

But for my body is sick.

 

“As you may, for sure, know,

Body is perishing; I am not,

And I am not by and because of

My body?”

 

“No, Master, no.

We can’t kill your body too,

For we fear or we are unsure

Whether the body we kill

Will kill you too?

Whether we will have to miss you,

When we will miss your body.”

 

“True, dear my friends,

You will have to miss me

When you miss my body.

Just because,

As you have earlier said,

I will escape from

The confinement of this body.

 

But, dear y friends,

Won’t you have the satisfaction

That you are saving me

From the pain I am made to eat

For no good and purpose.

And I hope for your selfish want

Of seeing me in person or physic

You won’t want or lead me

To eat pain and for that be living.

 

“Or, dear my friends,

Do you have any thought or doubt

That I am because of my body

And I will be missed or lost

When my body is missed or lost?

 

Do you doubt for your knowing,

That I have ever been changing

As and when my body changed,

Growing and maturing,

Each minute and day.

So will die and perish too

With the perishing of

This same my body?"

  

“Yes, Master, yes.

True, we have been seeing and observing

That you were growing and maturing

With your body's growth and maturity.

 

“No one, we have ever seen,

Is or was born ripe and mature,

With ripe or mature “I”.

 

“One is, in any normal case,

Dying too with the feel different

From that of one’s birth,

Almost over-mature or over-ripe,

Fading with over-mature or over-ripe “I”.

 

"So, dear my friends,

Do you mean now,

To contradict your own earlier say,

That one is by and because of his body?

 

“Or do you mean to say

No one is or no one was ever born

With any specific "I" or “I” feel,

And with anyone’s birth

No particular identifiable “I“

Was ever born

Or no particular “I”

Ever does exist,
As being responsible,

As a constant with continuity

To remain as same for ever

Without undergoing any change?"

 

“No master no, but yes too.

We really get confused

And we are not sure.”

 

"Then, dear my friends,

Why do you happen to say

You love me, not my body

If there is no separate “I” or “me”

From that of my body

Or its functional feel?

 

Dear my friends,

Do you think that

I own and possess my body?

Or does the body own and possesse me

Causing me to be dying with the same body?

 

As for you, do you think, my dear friends,

I am in control of growth and change of my body?

Or is the body in control of growth and change in me?

 

Dear my friends,

Wasn't I, or am I not, changing and growing

With the growth and change of my body?”

 

Isn’t it true that the body is possessing and owning me

Than me owning and possessing the body?

 

Was not or is not the “I” feel in my body or anyone’s

Only the feel and urge of the body to live and survive?

 

Was there or is there a living body

Without an "I" or a "me" therein?

 

Was there or is there an "I" or a "me"

Without a body therewith?

 

Is not or was not the "I" feel

Only a by-product feel

Of the functioning living body?

 

Then, isn’t it false

To say or claim that

You loved me,

Not and never my body?

 

Isn’t it true

That you loved the living body

And “I” in that body is not

Separate and different from that body?

 

So, dear my friends,

Wasn’t or isn’t so

That you took this my body as me

Or you took me as this my body?

 

Or didn’t you mean to say

I do not exist or live

Except in the form of this my body?”

 

Dear Master,

We can say and reply

For all your above questions

Only yes

As we all really don’t know

What is what.

  

**********

 

Dear my friend,

If “I” does not exist,

Continuing from here-before,

Hence, if “I” is a non-existing entity,

Except as a transient feel,

But not as a constant with continuity,

To continue to be in hereafter,

What and who will be lost and missed

If you kill me to save me from the pain?

Especially, my dear friends,
If I am even otherwise  non-existing
As I was never born as “I”,

Hence will never be dying too as “I”.

 

************

 

“How come, my friends, then,

I will be killed or dying

If “I” was not born

The way you understand,

Know and identify
“I” and “me” now”.

 

If “I” was not born, my friends,

Then how can I be killed and dying?

 

 *****************

 

True to say is that:

Dear y friends
“I” was not born;

Hence “I” will not die.

 

Born was a baby child

Or a small living body piece

With no specific feel of “I”.

 

Dying will be

A different man or an old man

Or an old living body piece

With no specific feel of “I”

Or at least with a different "I" feel

From the "I" feel at the time of birth.

 

Then, what and who is or was born?

 

A body with no pre-birth feel of “I”.

Or a body with no with-birth feel of “I”.

 

What and who is or will be dying?

A body with no with-death feel of “I”

Or a body with no post-death feel of “I”.

 

Dying is a body piece

Which happened to have grown in it

A kind of Post-birth built up

Urge and feel of “I”.

 

The same “I” feel got later on

Evolving into different “I”s

Of childhood, adolescence,

Youth and old-age

Growing and changing with

The growth and change

Of the body.

 

And this “I” happens to be

Gradually fading out

With no specific feel of “I” to remain

As the body which caused

Such an “I” feel also fade out.

 

*********

 

Dear my friends,

That could be the reason,

My friend Descartes rightly said,

If he really meant it in this way,

“I think, so I exist”

Or “I think, therefore I am”;

Not otherwise.

 

He said very clearly that 

I exist because I think;

Not otherwise.”

 

Never had he said

I think because I exist.

And never had he said

I exist, so I think.

 

Dear my friends, 

Bodily aspects and functions

Made the body or its brain

(One of the many body parts)

To be knowing, feeling and thinking.

 

And except for that body’s or brain’s

Knowing, thinking and feeling

“I” does not exist or live.

Only the life lives

Or the living body lives.

 

The body or its brain

Happens to have the feel of “I”

And happens to know, think and feel

It is living and existing.

So, the “I” happened to be.

 

Not because “I” was born or existing

With a pre-existing feel of “I”.

Or not because “I” is born

And is existing as a constant

Never undergoing any change

In such a feel of “I”.

 

Because of thinking and feeling

“I” happened to be.

And I happen to exist

Because of such feel and thought.”

 

Just because the body

And brain happened to be,

How transient it be,

The think, feel and know

Of “I” also happened to be.

 

Never because we exist or existed

As a separate entity with continuity

As a constant from past to future,

Through the present and current

With specificity and specific identity.

 

************

 

Hence, dear my friends

Why can’t you kill me

To save me from

Pain of this sick body?

 

Within the sick and paining body

I can never be but sick and paining.

And dear my friends,

You have not to be so adamant

To make a non-existing “I” or “me”

Existing.

 

Only, what you call or consider,

The totality or god or life exists

Making itself to be the only constant

With continuity and flow.

 

Hence, only the life and its bodies exist.

Only the God and its forms exist.

Only the totality and its relativities exist.

 

Dear my friends, even if I die,

Life or God or totality
Will flow and continue

With no decrease in its

Quantity and density.

 

Just because God or totality

Remains to be the same.

 

*********

So, Master,

Do you mean to say

You are not afraid of death,

When we are all afraid?

How is it possible?

 

Dear my friends,

It is not a big magic

Not to be afraid of death.

 

Ignorance causes fear.

Ignorance causes darkness

In dark no one knows

What is what and

Where and how to move.

Hence, fear or becoming afraid.

 

People are so ignorant

That they take “them”

As very concrete and constant.

 

They are also ignorant as to

What will happen to “them”

After death of so-called “them”.

 

Dear my friends,

I am very much sure

And well aware that

“I” or “you” or “them”

Do not exist,

Except as a transient feel,

Except as feel required

In objective or relative

Social life and system,

But not as a concrete constant

Before or after death.

 

Hence, dear my friends,

I am well-aware of

What is death and after death.

 

That there is nothing after death

Since there is no “I” or “you” or “them”

To be responsible with or accountable for.

 

Then, dear Master,

What will remain ultimately

After death and destruction?

 

Dear my friends,

If “I” doesn’t exist,

If “I” was not born

And “I” is not dying

Or will not be dying,

Where is the chance

Of after-death

For the “I” and “me”?

Where is the chance for

Continuity in after death

For the non-existing “I” and “me”?

So, where is the chance

To be afraid of anything

In after-death?

 

"Dear my friends,

Wrongly or by mistake

Religions have been concretizing

The “I” feel or ego in every one

In order to be able

To say and interpret that
There is life after death, and

This ego or “I” will have continuity

In after death life.

"Religions concretize
The "I" feel or ego.
They concretize ignorance
And its by-product fear.
The fear of death and after death

 

"So, in effect, such religions are

Claiming and promising

Rebirth and paradise after death.
The rebirth to this "I", ego.

Hence, religions are trying to concretize

The ego and its wants in every one.

 

"For such religions,

Death and after death promises are

For opening an extension counter

To satisfy the selfish wants of

Such concretized egos or “I” feels."

 

"Master,

What, then, will remain and exist

After the death and destruction?"

 

"Dear my friends,

What was there

Before the birth and creation

Will remain to exist after

The death and destruction too.

The totality, the life, God.

 

You came from, what you call,

The totality or God or life

Without a “you” or a “pre-birth you”.

 

You will go back to the same

Totality or God or life

Without a “you” or a “post-death you”.

 

Let this totality be called

“Life” or “God”

Or whatever name each one of you

Want to give with your

Knowledge or ignorance.

Call or address this totality or God
The way you can
From within all your limitations.

 

 *******

 

"Then, Master,

Having said so, as above,

As you said it to be like,

What is the ultimate meaning life?"

 

"Dear my friends,

Meaning of life is

The meaning of God or totality.
 

Meaning of life is

The meaning of life,

The whole.

 

But, my dear friends

As for your transient or temporary body

Meaning of life is repetition of

Eating, drinking, sleeping

And doing whatever possible

To make sure of this repetition

And, thereby, prolonging life

Of such repeating acts and wants.

 

You may in result,

In whatever way, end up 

In working for living

And living for working

Making itself the meaning of life.

 

Meaning of your work and job

Will finally become

The meaning of your life.
Meaning of your engagement
Will become meaning of your life.
You will identity your life
With the engagements you are engaged in.

That will be the meaning of a life that is relative.

And that will be the meaning of a life that is social.

 

You can’t escape from this

Relative "I" or "you" feel trap of

The totality or God or life,

Except with the realization feel

That “you” or “I” does not exist.

 

This knowledge or realization

Of non-existing “I” or “you”

Only will get you back, while alive,

To be merged and united to be one
With the totality or God or life

To make your and my “I” feel

The “I” feel of totality or God or life.

To the extend to be able to say
I do not exist.
Only the totality or God exists.
Only the "I" of totality or God exists

 

**********

 

"Dear my friends,

That is why too,

As there was no other meaning to life

Than that of life or God or totality,

I did ask you to  help me
Simply by killing my this body

To save me from the pain of

This sick living body.

 

Just because of the relative trap,

I am in,

Of life or God or totality.

 

And dear my friends

Don't be worried at all.

 

Because, if God or totality or life

Has got or given any other meaning

To this life of relative "you" or "me"

It will be the duty of God or totality or life too

To make sure such a meaning is given and happen.

 

God or totality or life is,

By any definition given or attributed to it,

Capable of ensuring such meaning

Given or attributed to "you" and "me"

Happen successfully with obstruction to it.

 

Dear my friends, hence,

You have not to be worried at all.

 

You have just to live and be living.

 

Your life itself will give the meaning

Attributed or given to you and your life.