How to Deal with Loss

One of the deepest and most fundamental truths of life is that where there is life there will be death. Where there is gain there will be loss. Where a wave goes up, it will come down. Loss is as inevitable to life as death is. We lose relationships, jobs, finances, pets, friends and homes. Our lives are filled with transitory and temporary things that come and go, come and go. The hardest of these losses, of course, is the loss of a loved one to death. When a loved ones dies we feel helpless and hopeless. It seems there is nothing we can do to fix that loss! It’s permanent. The double difficulty is that not only must we deal with our own loss, but we must also deal with everyone else’s inability to handle OUR loss! They just don’t know what to do or what to say to make us feel better so they say and do things that frequently make us feel worse!

In this deeply profound teaching in the presence of her Guruji, Param Pujya Swamiji, Sadhviji beautifully illuminates the process of grief, and assures us that grief is a natural and necessary process – and, not one that we should be ashamed of or afraid of.