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may their soul rest in peace

At least 36 Hindu pilgrims from Nepal were killed on Thursday when their bus plunged into a river in the mountainous northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said.

The passenger bus carrying 40 people spun out of control and fell 100 feet (30 metres) into the rain-swollen Alaknanda river in Chamoli, district administrator DS Garbiyal said.

"Four survived the crash and have been hospitalised in very serious condition," Garbiyal told AFP by telephone from Chamoli, 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of state Capital Dehradun.

Police said 20 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage of the bus, which was stuck among boulders in the fast-flowing river.

Twenty-six of the victims were women, Garbiyal added.

The Nepalese, who had been touring Hindu pilgrimage sites for the past week, were returning from a popular shrine on the foothills of the Himalayas when the accident occurred, the administrator addded.

Accidents are frequent in impoverished Uttarakhand, where the mountain roads are treacherous, with many hairpin bends.

The word "death" is a great misnomer, for there is no death; when you are tired of life, you simply take off the overcoat of flesh and go back to the astral world.

The Bhagavad Gita speaks beautifully and solacingly of the immortality of the soul:

"Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginnings are dreams! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever; Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems."

Death is not the end; it is temporary emancipation, given to you when karma, the law of justice, determines that your present body and environment have served their purpose, or when you are too weary or exhausted by suffering to bear the burden of physical existence any longer. To those who are suffering, death is resurrection from the painful tortures of flesh into awakened peace and calmness. To the elderly, it is a pension earned by years of struggling through life.

For all, it is a welcome rest. May their souls rest in peace!