The Art of Defying Death.

‘On a misty spring night in 2005, I approached my apartment, on a tony block on the Upper West Side facing the Hudson. I felt relaxed and calm. Earlier that day I had attended a yoga workshop with a guru from India, then completed a writing assignment for a health and spirituality magazine about, as it happened, instinct — or antar-jñana, inner knowledge. I opened the outer door to my vestibule, then crossed through its inner door and into my lobby, leaving my back to the entrance. I got a prickly feeling, I don’t know why. I turned. There I saw, pushing open the inner door, an ink-black, gloved hand, exaggeratedly large, controlled and deliberate. It charged toward me. It was trailed by a body, the picture of death.’ NYT 14 Oct 2009

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/the-art-of-defying-death/#comment-23701

Comment:

We do not think of Death normally as we are afraid to face its inevitability.Once we know that it is inevitable, our life, our ambitions and plans are fragile and shall end in a micro second ,we shall learn to be humble and more humane.We shall be thankful for what we have and not whine over what we imagine we do not have.

Purpose of Yoga is to possess equanimity both under pleasant and unpleasant circumstances,not conquering the fear of Death, for it is inevitable.