In his epic poem Savitri, Sri Aurobindo, the renowned Indian seer, presents the end of a person’s life as a transformative event, a passage, or a door through which one passes towards a greater life. Essentially, the poem recounts the saga of human victory over ignorance and death.
Thus, on the racing tracks of life, death is but a pit stop. One gives up one’s creaking old jalopy. In exchange, one gets a shimmering new vehicle. One then zooms off to a newer horizon, the engine firing on all six cylinders. With each pit stop, one evolves further.
The principle of reincarnation mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita indirectly captures the way death, a certainty in life—just like the taxes which one must grudgingly bear—can be faced with a smile on one’s lips.
Eventually, it also leads us to the theory of Karma.
(The text is an edited excerpt from my latest book ‘Bhagavad Gita and Corporate Dharma’.)
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