"POPSIE WAY OF LIFE"

 An ode to my Father !

" POPSIE WAY OF LIFE"

Bidding farewell to our Father - who lived a King sized life and left on his terms. Salute to a pure soul who was all mind (and not body)

His wisdom pearls: When the body begins to start winding up and there’s no hope of return, no further treatment should be done. There should be - NO IV, Feeding Tubes, or hospital visits without purpose. 

His wish: His final moments to be Peaceful: Guided by wisdom, not by a desperate chase for cure to extend the Life. To leave straight from his bed in his house to almighty directly. He had direct connection with God and considered God to be his friend. His favourite quote - " Main aur mera bhagwan: hum do !" 

If death is a consequence of any disease process, then if you treat the disease death can be avoided or postponed. But the biology of the body runs much much deeper than that. Body is not just a machine designed to run for ever. It’s a limited system, powered by "Finite Life-force". This energy doesn’t come from any external source — it flows subtle through the body, the same one we all experience but cannot see, made up of the Mind, Memory, Intellect & Consciousness.

This subtle body is the channel through which life-force enters, spreads through the body and powers everything from heartbeat, digestion, and movement to the ability to think. 

But this life-force is not Infinite. Each body contains a specific, fixed quantity, like a machine with a sealed battery : you can’t add or reduce the power. In my Popsie's word - there is a quota for everything and one should see life in totality. “The toy works only as long as the key winds it,” as the saying goes. When this energy is finally exhausted, the subtle body separates from the physical one. 

That is the moment when the body becomes still and we say, "the breath has left the body." This is body’s own Internal Timing - a process that begins in the womb and completes when the energy is fully spent. Every cell, every organ, quietly finishes its individual lifespan — and when the total quota is exhausted, the body comes to rest.

Death doesn’t follow the clock on the wall -it follows Biological Time of the body. And that is Different for Everyone. Some lives complete at 35, others at 90 years. But both are complete in their own measure. No one dies, no one leaves incomplete, unless we see it as a defeat.

When modern medicine insists on extending life, it often exhausts not just the body, but also the entire family. When Popsie's body whispered: “Enough now.” We respected his wish-" Let my Body go. Don’t try to Stop it" 

This was not simple. Balancing logic and emotion is perhaps the hardest task of all. But if we start to see death as a natural, peaceful and biologically-timed process, maybe we’ll fear it a little less. Maybe it's time to stop fighting death'. And instead, prepare to live well before it arrives.

And when it comes, let it arrive with peace and dignity.

In the Words of the Buddha: Death is a Promotion.

Love you from this world to your world: Till we meet again, up there !

Yours, 

Juju\ Raju\ Chaand