As mentioned in the title, this book throws light on a long and eventful journey of a soul or a Jeeva when the path towards immortality is retraced.
For any journey taken up, due preparations are necessary. First and foremost thing is that one should not have any fear of any sort regarding its safety as to whether the journey would be safe or not. Next, a definite route for the journey has to be chosen. In the same way, if a soul plans its journey to immortality due preparations are needed; but they are of a different kind. First of all a person should be aware of the fact that the entity which undertakes the journey to immortality is quite different from the physical body. Then comes the fear aspect. A person is always afraid of death i.e. end of human life, because various related scenes like bamboo bier, rope, coffin and a hearse van waiting to take the dead body for its disposal (by cremation or burying) etc. come to the mind. Such scenes are quite frightening. Hence before the commencement of the journey to immortality, this fear is to be alleviated. Keeping this point in mind, a comprehensive discussion of death is presented in the first chapter.
For retracing the path to immortality, the mind has to be made introvert and hence we can call this as an inward journey whereas the one mentioned above is in the outward direction where the mind is extrovert. The journey in the backward direction is an effort leading towards salvation or Nirvana. The scriptures as well as the saints emphasize that a life in human form is quite precious and it is obtained only after journeying through 84 lakhs of births in different life-forms. One can make an effort to attain salvation only when he is born as a human being. The other living forms including all animals do not have the intellect to think, hence cannot attain salvation, except under exceptional circumstances.
Now coming to the first point, that is the end of human life or death, the relevant points which are appropriate here, are the time and the place of death, condition of the soul at the time of leaving the body, the fear of death and how to overcome it, and finally, consoling the bereaved. Writing efficiently on a subject like this is very difficult, as after leaving the body, no soul has come back to narrate its experience at the time of death directly or indirectly. Similarly, no living person observing the death of a near and dear one, can correctly visualize what exactly happens when the soul is about to leave the body.
Further, a story writer or an author of a novel has full freedom to develop the subject which might be based on complete fiction or some factual event or events. But the subject of death differs from fiction as it must reckon with reality, as much as possible. A question may arise as to why one should think of this subject at all, which is as frightening as death itself!! The answer to this question is simple - because one has to give proper thought to such an unavoidable event, when he or she is alive so as to accept death as a natural event without any agony or fear.
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