The Departed Do Not Truly Go — They Only Seem to Vanish a While

answered by Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 2

기원전 2세기경 편찬(서사시 전승)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Terms of Endearment (1983)

dir. James L. Brooks · USA

A mother and daughter who spent a lifetime bickering, drifting apart and drawing close again, meet the end together through the daughter's illness. The time lost to quarreling is a waste, yet in the final moment their love is clearer than ever. When we know the time together is finite, how does love change?

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

Do I spend time quarreling with a child or parent, always realizing too late that our days together are finite?

THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL

na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin ... na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

The true self is neither born nor dies; though the body perishes, the love within it does not perish.

💡 TL;DR

The Gita said the true self does not die, and though the body perishes the love within does not.

📝The Classic Answers

The Gita said the true self does not die, and though the body perishes the love within does not. This does not deny the sorrow of death; it is the comfort that love outlasts it. When a mother and daughter who bickered all their lives fully confirm their love only at the final moment, we realize with pain how much time we let slip into petty quarrels. I act as if conflict with a close one will last forever, yet the time together is always shorter than expected. Love remains even after one is gone — but that love is better expressed more while still alive. I choose to spend on love the time I would spend on quarreling.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Set down one petty quarrel with a close one today, and in its place put a single kind word instead.

📖 Classic Source: Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 2. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.