{"product_id":"preparing-for-death-9780670092390","title":"Preparing: For Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arun Shourie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH India Local Print\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Viking\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe one certainty in life, the one appointment which each of us will just have to face, is the one for which we do the least to prepare-death. From the lives and last days of the Buddha, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharshi, Gandhiji, Vinoba; from our religious texts; from the teachings of great meditation masters; from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e santhara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to sannyas to practices by which we may tame our mind-leavening all these by his personal experiences-Arun Shourie presents clues to ensure that we face our end with equanimity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the process, he lays down what we must do if rituals, pilgrimages and mantras are to help us. He leads us to ask whether texts such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTibetan Book of the Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are for the dead, or do they set out lessons for us, the living? He leads us to see through the sedatives that we are fed. Even as we are being frightened by accounts of 'hell', are we not actually being lulled to sleep? Does the fact that we will face extreme tortures in hell not mean that in some form we \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewill \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esurvive death? To experience them, after all, we must be present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligions entice us into the great questions. Is there a soul that is never born and never dies? Is there life after death? Is there rebirth? Is there God? What is real and what is just maya? The greatest teachers and mystics have come up with different answers. Each of them has had direct experience of what she or he has proclaimed to be the truth. How, then, are we to proceed?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH India Local Print","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46122618454167,"sku":"9780670092390","price":715.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780670092390.webp?v=1769298648","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/preparing-for-death-9780670092390","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}