Three Wishes of Alexander

Three Wishes of Alexander
Alexander the great had three wishes on his deathbed:

“My first wish is to have my physician bring my coffin home alone. After a gasping for air, Alexander continued: My second wish is scatter the gold, silver, and gems from my treasure-house along the
...path to the tomb when you ship my coffin to the grave. After wrapping in a woollen blanket and resting for a while, he said: My final wish it to put my hands outside the coffin.” People surrounding him all were very curious, but no one dare to ask the reason. Alexander's most favoured general kissed his hand and asked: “My Majesty, We will follow your instruction. But can you tell us why you want us to do it this way?”

After taking a deep breath, Alexander said: “I want everyone understand the three lessons I have learned. To let my physician carry my coffin alone is to let people realize that a physician cannot really cure people's illness beyond a point. Especially when they face death, the physicians are powerless. I hope people will learn to treasure their lives. My second wish is to tell people not to be like me in pursuing wealth. I spent my whole life pursuing wealth, but I was wasting my time most of the time. My third wish to let people understand that I came to this world with empty hands and I will leave this world also with empty hands.”
You don't even carry yourself leave alone anything else!!! Some one has to carry you !!!

My dear friends, yesterday I was at the funeral of a very close person to my heart. I have always silently appreciated his resilience in life and in facing his illness. He was a great soldier of the Indian army and served for 41 years. He died of old age. Finally he made the supreme gift of donating his body for medical research.

This act epitomizes the reality of our existence. As you read from the life of the great military achiever, Alexander the Great, out of emptiness we come and into emptiness we return. It is in this brief period, which is insignificant in relation to the existence of the cosmos, we seem to focus our energies entirely on a very temporary agenda.

Physical death is inevitable and our body is a temporary vehicle of our consciousness. Nothing material can accompany us beyond this existence. Instead of chasing one’s own shadow (the physical body) with a view to grasp its nature, focus on the Self which is the real you.