Short story: The Spiritual master's students picked his right successor from amongst themselves

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The Spiritual Advantist (From the teaching of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu Spiritual Philosophy. Advantist was a coined word used in this Ashram) master, Sri Ruben Dertvall, was getting old, and he looked around his ashram, for a possible replacement for his position, as the head of the ashram. He found nobody up to his exacting requirements, and so when he did die, a few short weeks later, no replacement master had been yet chosen by him to succeed him. The students had a competition amongst themselves, and they declared that the winner would be the new master here, in their ashram. They asked each other to come up with such an unanswerable question that nobody could answer it satisfactorily. When one student simply asked this question, they all agreed to appoint him as the new master, so good, and deep, had his question been, that it was obvious to all that he was the right choice, in this matter. His question was this one: "When we die, do we die to ourselves, or to others around us, only?" Nobody, of course, knew the answer to his question. The next day, after he was chosen as the replacement master for the old master, a message was found etched in the sand in the sand garden, in the courtyard, which simply said. "Well-chosen, my students. I know, but you cannot know until you join me here too." They all knew that this was their old master referring to the answer to their new master's question. His love for them was so great, that he had taught them even after his death, something new about death, and about life too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The master got his final message through to his students, even after his own death. There is death in life, but there is also life in death.