As the world continues to struggle with curbing the spread of coronavirus, we have been hit by two successive jolts that have left the country in shock and grief. Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor, though very different in their approach to the craft of acting, have left voids that canât be filled by others. And while we were still grieving the legends by revisiting their masterpieces, we came across a poignant video on YouTube, where Irrfan Khan talks about life, death, spirituality and much more.

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Uncanny as it may seem now, as soon as the conversation starts, Irrfan brings up the topic of death - trying to understand Asha Jadejaâs perspective on whether death is beyond understanding. Asha Jadeja is the wife of Rajeev Motwani, who was one of the first advisors of Google. Asha offers a rather interesting insight on how she coped with her husbandâs death by looking out for signals.

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The conversation freewheels into how the society has become consumeristic and drifted away from spirituality with some profound insights from Irrfan. Citing an example from his childhood, Irrfan explains how the epiphany struck him that he was a mere device of all the information and influences around him and how we are all, as a society, designed to work like that. What stood out for me though and can really give anyone goosebumps is the way Irrfan wraps the conversation up:

Irrfan says, âSometimes we have the audacity to understand reality. Thatâs the energy which has created you - you cannot look back and understand it. Itâs unknowable and you should be easy with that uncertainty and the unknowable. We have this sense of being, but we are nothing. Maybe the consciousness is experiencing itself through us.â Though eerie to see him talking about life and death, the note on which he ends this video not only gives some solace in dealing with his loss, it also comes as some much-needed reflection amidst these testing times of isolating from the world.

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