Expert: Harbhajan Singh - 12/27/2005

Question
I am 24 years old, I live in Brazil and lately I have been thinking too much about death. And it horrifies me to even consider the fact that this is all gonna end...and that we can never be totally sure of what happens next...I find myself thinking about this on a daily basis...and it terrifies me...specially when I think about WHAT MY DEATH IS GONNA BE LIKE...the causes you know...

Honestly, like most people, I wish I could live forever...

I am afraid that after death all I am gonna find is suffering...or just an eternal loneliness (which is just like big suffering to me!)...

I have never believed in God or anything like it, but these thoughts (which I had never had before) could mean a sign or something like that...should I turn myself more to God and some religion, because the end would be near?

Am I the only one having these thoughts or is it common?

Thank you and I hope I gave you good material to think about...

Cheers,
DANIEL

Answer
Hello Daniel,

You are at a very enviable evolutionary stage. It is the time when you can find that there is something in you which is never going to die and in fact it is this something which you finally mean when you say "I". At about 27, I myself was preoccupied with this question and then something happened and this qustion was solved for me once and for all.

I then used to ask myself among other questions: Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I supposed to go after my death? HAS MY "I", MY BEING SOME PERMANENT POINT OF REFERENCE OR IS IT A MERE CHANCE BUBBLE FLOATING MEANINGLESSLY IN THE WILDERNESS OF SPACE?

Then one day something happened, it seemed I expanded to include in myself the whole universe. Since then this question simply vanished from my mind.

As I see it, you are at a stage where one can ask such questions and  RECEIVE AN ANSWER.

So search within yourself, ask yourself Who Am I and may be you too will 'see' something in yourself which will show you that there is something in you which is going to live for ever.

Thanks, Harb