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The poem 'The Fear Of Life And Death', by Sri Aurobindo, is nothing, but a portrayal of death, in a beautiful form. Sri Aurobindo asks us to not to fear death, rather look at it as a graceful maiden. He further says that death may be painful initially, but its end-result is eternal bliss. The poem is mystic and its figurative description of death is amazing. Sri Aurobindo says that death is like a beautiful bride, with a laughing face, who opens the gates of eternal bliss for the humankind. Death does not follow our timings; rather it has its own timings and come of its own will and desire.
The Fear Of Life And Death
Death wanders through our lives at will, sweet Death
Is busy with each intake of our breath
Why do you fear her? Lo, her laughing face
All rosy with the light of jocund grace!
A kind and lovely maiden culling flowers
In a sweet garden fresh with vernal showers,
This is the thing you fear, young portress bright
Who opens to our souls the worlds of light?
Is it because the twisted stem must feel
Pain when the tenderest hands its glory steal?
Is it because the flowerless stalk droops dull
And ghastly now that was so beautiful
Or is it the opening portal's horrid jar
That shakes you, feeble souls of courage bare?
Death is but changing of our robes to wait
In wedding garments at the Eternal's gate
