Guru Granth Sahib Speaks (Set of 6 Books)

Foreword Death is a certainty. Therefore, in all ages, people have been absorbed in comprehending the mystery behind this perennial subject. Why everything that takes birth must die? Who is responsible for birth and death? People who die, narrate various types of experiences. The dying man becomes conscious about the presence of some beings coming from some other world for taking away the life-force or soul. The sages in various countries recorded about this phenomenon of death in their 'books of the dead'. The most ancient document on the subject that has come down to us is the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It is a compendium of incantations, prayers, litanies, procedures of treating the deceased etc., recorded from the funerary texts belonging to various centuries. They reveal the beliefs of the Egyptians in the Immortality of the soul and the life after death. The Egyptians worshipped the sun-god RA. The other revered deities were Osiris and his sister Isis. Another work of importance on the subject is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It is said to be put in writing in the eighth century and is attributed to the Great Tibetan Guru Padmasambhava. It presents the belief in the continuation of life after death. It also brings forward elaborate rituals for conducting the soul safely to the regions in the yond. This work was written as a guide for the dying. It also presents a belief in the local gods, mountain spirits and other deities. The experiences associated with the time of death have also been described in this Book.

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