India, Feb. 16 -- Life is full of questions and the curious one will want answers. But, there are questions that can't be answered. Like, why we die? When will we die? And, How will we die? Any answer to these questions is incomplete and it becomes questionable. A paradox of sorts.

If at all there is one supreme desire in man, that is about avoiding death. A wonderful desire but beyond realisation. There are no chiranjivis, immortals, among men. In Mahabharata, the Hindu epic, there is an episode known as Yaksha's questions or 'Yudhishtira and the Yaksha' where Yaksha asks Yudhishtira (Dharmaraya) many questions (125 approx) and the answers Yudhishtira gives are enlightening and revealing. Two questions touch upon the distressed among me...