Are you living with the 'dead bodies'?

Few decades before, a Muslim born Hindu like monk lived with his disciples’ families in a group of newly built huts in barren lands away from the nearby villages.The place was called ‘mei vazi sAlai’ (true path) in Pudukkottai district, South India and he was worshiped as ‘‘mei vazi’ chAmiyAr’ (‘mei vazi’ monk). 

When he died, his disciples refused to accept his death, claiming that he was only sleeping. Unable to bear the foul smell from the dead body, after some days, they buried him. That sect stopped growing as well as when he was alive, though the disciples continue to live there believing him as the true God.

Those disciples were intelligent to accept the death of the body of the ‘‘mei vazi’ chAmiyAr’ because of the foul smell from the body which they could not tolerate.

Had they consumed some intoxicating drinks, they might have tolerated the foul smell for some more days.

Like that, many of us are intoxicated with some ideology, dead customs (like the distorted -from the hygiene based- now caste based ‘untouchability’), dead human bonds, etc and continue to live with ‘those dead bodies’, getting infected in the course of time.

How are we to identify that we are living with ‘dead bodies’?

Like the ‘foul smell’, if the persons of the  party upholding the ‘dead ideology’, of the dead customs and dead human bonds, exhibit increasing negative values and decreasing positive values in their personal lives , and becoming the growing sources for your negative feelings and negative experiences, it means you are living with the 'dead bodies'. Your affection towards the ideology, custom and the human bonds (lover, husband/wife, children, friends, etc) is the intoxication which prevents you to sensitize the ‘foul smell’ till you start  living like a ‘dead’ person – a human robot not programmed to sensitize the foul smell, human sufferings, & ‘nature’ sufferings.

Once you sensitize the ‘foul smell’, you can get rid of the party and even the dead custom.

How can we get freedom from the dead human bonds?

To do that you must acquire ‘the skill of the secret of dying for joyful living’ ; 
http://veepandi.blogspot.com/2012/12/normal-0-false-false-false_5.html

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