Why the Hero Dies?

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Why so many epic tales, heroic tales of war and victory end with the death of the protagonist, the hero? The war is won, but the hero is gone. Oh, captain, my captain. The war you fought is one. And the poet says, “But my captain does not listen. Here he lies cold and dead.” The crowds on the shore are rejoicing, but the captain is dead. The captain had to be dead because the war is real. When the war is real, it will consume you. You must not be left alive at the end of the war. Otherwise, it’s a disrespect to the war. You didn’t offer it everything.

The right war is the one that does not leave you with anything. Probably not even with your life. That is why Kabir says that his warrior gets his head chopped off before he sets out to war. He has to begin rightly. So he says there can be no greed. I’m going there to give myself away. I’m not going there to get something. Chopping one’s head off means chopping off the intention to get or accumulate.