CORONA MONOLOGUE (2) -By N P Samal

NO FEAR !

No fear! Pick the positivity. Filter positive essence from the negative crude... The whole stock of life lies within. And in fearlessness surges the strength of living. Take the virus by the horn... There is hope. In our hope is life... Comes strength also in our refuge. Surrender completely at the feet of God... There is life. There is always life... Otherwise, life is temporary. Life is solitary. Life is lonesome. You are alone. All alone...! Do not take your life as separated from those of others. Life cannot be fragmented. You cannot be separated from others. Fear will eat you up. Find your life in lives of others and theirs in you. Dissolve the block of your self into the selves of others. And see your fear is gone. 

If you still have fear of death, think of rebirth. Imagine. Draw up. Envision a sweeter, better life. Shelter in it. You will be transformed into a deathless feeling. You will not find negativity.  Your fear will go... Just sit alone. Close your eyes.  Get lost into the spirit of the Soul, the Supreme Soul. Remember: You were no where before your birth, for billions of years. It was utterly dark. You were dissolved in the dark infinity. You knew nobody. Nobody knew you... Dinosaurs came and went. Civilizations emerged and perished. Mughals, Marathas, Mauryas, Aryans, Dravidians, all came and went. Gandhi, Einstein, Newton and other civilization heroes are no more. The whole history of humanity cannot rise from the grave... So, if you are a hero, fear not. "Cowards die many times before death, but valiants have never taste of death but once." So, no fear!

Life does not begin with you or end with you. Your life is just a non-existent drop in the finite sea of consciousness. This drop is formed in the sea, then soon melts in the sea itself. So, you have been formed as a drop and soon, you will dissolve. So, you are limited as well as unlimited. So, you are measurable as well as immeasurable. So, you are formed as well as formless... The whole sea of consciousness is swallowed in the Transcendence -- the Infinity. 

At the time of death, everybody realizes life is nothing. In fact, the whole Creation is a nothingness, especially to the mortal. To life, the mundaneness is an illusion. The passing of life is an illusive phenomenon. In this illusion, your love for life is as vague as life itself... You fear death, because you love life. All who love life fear death. But none can define life. None can hold life like they hold money, ornaments, other goods. Life cannot be apprehended. Life is incomprehensive. Life is abstract. This abstractness holds life as its non-essence. 

Like a drop lost in the absorbency, you are absorbed in the Creation. We all are absorbed. The whole things are absorbed. The organisms, the non-organisms, the tangible, the intangible...all are absorbed in the Abstraction. You are born to this Abstraction. I am born to this Abstraction. You die to this Abstraction. I die to this Abstraction. Thus, you die into me and I die into you. We all die into one another... There is no Hell that is waiting for you alone. We all are the co-habitants of the Hell, as we are now the co-habitants of the 'Heaven'  where we think ourselves deathless, immortal. But death here on this planet is inevitable. Death is the ultimate. Death is truth... 

So, no fear! Do not fear Corona. It will go with the passage of time. So will we. Pandemics like cholera, small pox, SARS, and swine flu committed genocides in different times in the past. Numberless lives fell dead each time. So what? Our own demons like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Luis waved through the earth the horrors of death. Holocausts are never new. Mass deaths are never new. These horrors are our everyday experience now. Diseases, poverty, malnutrition, violence, terrorism, secessionism, hatred, superstition, exploitation, corruption, adultery, accidents, calamities, and other numerous 'Agents of Death' kill human beings with each tik of the clock. But life goes on. The earth moves on. The world is happy. We are happy and too possessive with life. There is great pride in us. There is great conceit in us. There are plenty of things in markets to gratify our prurient desires -- the indigenous, the exotic,  the aphrodisiacs, the steroids, and other so many to make believe we are immortal. And take heart! You shall not die. You shall never die. May God waylay Corona away from you! May God allow Corona take others' lives but not yours! Why should it matter to you if the virus fells others? It should not. It must not. Everybody feels they are immortal and others are mortal. So you shall not die! So let others die. Let others like the drops melt into the sea. Let their soul dissolve into the limitless Infinity...

-- N. P. SAMAL, POET, AUTHOR, ACADEMIC 

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