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Death is not end or extinction, extinction of existence. It is just climate change on
your body and mind. Whenever many deaths of mind happens in same body, it is spiritual
evolution. If many bodies die in the same mind, it is unconsciousness, spiritual endarkenment.
If more minds die in same body you are spiritually growing, evolving. If more bodies die in same
mind you are spiritually going down, destroying yourself. Again and again and again bodies
die, minds die. Blessed are those in whom many minds die in one body. Continuously allow
minds to be dying. Let your mind, even if you think in a best space, allow it to die,
allow it for transformation. Allowing the mind to die every time in the same body leads
you to the highest liberation and celebration. The concept of money, possession, ownership,
is the side effect of inability to accept the death of the body. The feeling of ‘your
son is your extension’ is also the inability to accept the extinction of body. When you
are ready to accept the extinction of the body, the part of you which does not die goes
through a powerful transformation, and liberates itself from the dying component of you, which
is the body. Through this way it achieves a space where there is no extinction where
there is no death. Death is the most powerful mechanism, either
to get enlightened or to get yourself drowned in deeper and deeper unconsciousness. Every
day when you fall asleep it is equivalent to death, when you wake up it is equivalent
to birth. From the deep sleep if you come to the dreaming state it is unconscious birth.
From the deep sleep if you come directly to the waking state it is conscious birth. Every
day you go through birth and death. How you behave with this birth and death which is
happening everyday is going to decide how you are going to behave with the birth and
death which is going to happen with your body, because everyday birth and death is nothing
but the direct glimpse of the long big birth and big death, which is only has a difference
in time, but not in space or the place. Your everyday birth and death and every-life birth
and death happens in same space and place. Only time difference between one birth and
the other birth, the time difference between birth-death of one and the birth-death of
the other is different. There are some files which is not able to
completely be revealed just by verbalization. Even after reading, verbalization, still those
files remain having some material without being completely revealed. Those stuff, those
material, can be transmitted only by initiation. Because those akashic records cannot get into
the realm of verbalization, they are not able to be translated into words. They just continue
to remain as vibrations. When your mind dies in the same body and becomes
a new mind, cosmos enters into you. When your body dies in the same mind, takes a new body,
you enter into the cosmos. When cosmos enters you it is liberation, when you enter into
the cosmos it is death. The part feels as part, the moment it wants to be part; part
only should be blamed not the Whole, because part only continues to hold on to the thought
to be part. Whole is not holding on to the thought. Even though the thought might have
happened on the Whole also, only when you hold on to the thought you remain as part.
So the feeling of separation, who created, why created, is not the really focus of your
vengeance or action. Your focus should be on who is holding on to that feeling of separation,
not who created, why it got created. Who holds on to it, gives life to it. The feeling of
separation, because the part only is holding on to it, it is giving life to it. So your
action and intensity to act upon should be directed to the center who is holding on to
that feeling that you are separate from the Whole, you are part not the Whole.
Questions and Answers
The first question is from Janani. She is asking, ‘Dear Swamiji, if one has taken
an unconscious birth, how can he take a conscious death?’
That is what is life. Life gives you the possibility to move from Unconsciousness to Consciousness
and Consciousness to Superconsciousness. If you take unconscious birth you can move to
conscious death. If you have taken conscious birth you can move towards superconscious
death which is enlightenment itself, and even if you take unconscious birth you can directly
jump into superconscious death also, and same way even if you have taken conscious birth
you can get back to Unconscious death if you decide strongly.
Usually the conscious birth being does not want to get in, will not get in to the Unconscious;
but life gives you the possibility of everything. All possibilities are given to you, are provided
to you. So understand the possibility exists in life, that is why it is called life. Every
time when you are living, the possibility for all the dimensions are open to you, available
to you and waiting for you.
The next question is from Mary Bernard: ‘Nithyanandam Swamiji! You have already spoken on the destructiveness
of suicide. Some states and countries allow patients who are suffering with terminal illness
to practice assisted death. It is strictly regulated. Usually the family gathers around
the patient and some kind of painless lethal injection is given as per the patient’s
wishes and instruction. Could you comment on this?’
Cosmos does not agree this mercy killing. As Mahadeva already read out, it will be considered
either suicide or ***. If the patient agrees it will be considered as suicide, the patient
does not agree it will be considered as ***. But all the people who help and make this
happen will be treated for *** in the cosmic law.
The next question is from Sudarshini Madan: ‘Dear Swamiji, why there is so much of fear of death?
How did the relationships emerge to be an important thing in our life?’
Anything you don’t understand, don’t want to understand, does not have the brain capacity
to understand, fear surrounds it. Unknown is always fear for any living being. Now understand,
Mahadeva himself the source of the creation, the source of the existence, source of the
eternity is revealing these great truths. Again and again and again listen to these
great truths, chant these great truths. This will liberate you from the fear. When your
cognizance is based on these great truths, cosmic secrets, you will be free from the
fear. The fear is nothing but the projection of
negativity on the future possibility. It is not necessary you need to continuously project
negativity or positivity on the future possibility. Simply seeing the future possibility without
projecting negativity or positivity on to it, is living prarabdha. So the fear comes
into your system only when you project your fear, your negativity, on the future possibilities.
Negativities, the negative ideas, does not need to be projected on the future possibility.
Relationships gives you the feeling it is very important in the life, because through
every relationship you try to have extended life. While you are living, whatever your
body and mind cannot do for your interest and pleasure, you try to fulfill through the
body and minds of your relationships, and same way, whatever they cannot fulfill through
their body and mind, they are trying to fulfill through your body and mind. So mutually each
other helping to fulfill the other’s interest through body and mind of each other’s is
relationships. If both of you understand the interests of each other and ready to support
each other’s fulfillment, it is called successful relationship. There comes love compassion
sacrifice and spiritual growth. But if both of them are not understanding the real agendas
of others, interests of others, continue the relationship maybe because one person is has
hidden interest, hidden agendas which he does not want to reveal it to the other or which
he himself is not aware, when this kind of situations arise relationship breaks or relationships
continue to exist with being exploited, with exploitation.
These kind of relationships lead to the worst grave sin of keeping the other person as slave.
Whenever the slavery happens cosmos strongly condemns it. So no slavery is allowed in the
cosmos. Cosmos is strictly against slavery because slavery is equivalent to the ***
of partial time. In slavery even if the other person has their body and mind, it is equivalent
to they are killed, they are murdered, because that body and mind is not useful to that person
anymore. So relationship with a open mutual interest should be encouraged, and it supports
both the beings to evolve towards the fulfillment, and finally the understanding - how many bodies
and minds you may use to fulfill your interest, that your interests are not going to lead
you to your restful awareness. So that understanding may help you to renounce all the interests
and even your own body and mind and settle down in restful awareness. So this understanding
will naturally be leading you towards enlightenment. Going smoothly towards that understanding
will be happening through the right understanding relationships. The relationships with the
mood of exploiting other person, with the hidden agenda without you revealing it to
the other person about your interest or you yourself may not knowing it by yourself, will
lead to more and more destruction depression. If the relationships continues it will be
the sin of slavery, if it breaks it will be giving you great devoid depression feeling
of emptiness. So the science of relationship is trying to have more body and minds to fulfill
your interests and trying to give the other person also your body and mind to fulfill
his interest. As long as it is mutual it is with a deep understanding it should be encouraged
supported and blessed. Relationships with deep understanding with
each other is equivalent to the conscious birth. Relationships without mutual understanding
but still not broken is equivalent to unconscious life. Relationships without mutual understanding
broken is equivalent to death. All unconscious life will be afraid of death and end in death.
Same way all relationships which doesnot have mutual understanding will constantly have
fear of being broken. Finally it will break and bring tremendous suffering to both the
persons who are involved in it.
The next question is from Mary Bernard: ‘Swamiji has said that departed souls take rebirth
very shortly after death. Many mediums can see or talk to the deceased many years following
a person’s death. The departed person can give information to the living that the living
would have no way of knowing, or ghosts are seen generations after the death of that person.
Does the soul somehow split, part of it moving on and part of it remaining as a part of the
personality of the departed?’
Only souls which are murdered or committed suicide remains without taking another body
till their natural time of their death. For example if somebody has to live for 60 years,
he commits suicide or get killed gets killed at the age of 20, the remaining number of
years he remains with taking the other body. Other than that nobody, no soul, remains without
taking another one body. Sometime because of your deep imagination, you yourself project
their souls out of your imagination and talk to them. Your unconsciousness supports and
acts as that soul. It is the informations from your own unconsciousness, not from that
soul. That soul has gone, disappeared once for all and carrying on with his life. You
may be projecting it out of your unconscious informations while your unconscious supports
the projection and the whole reading, talking, all the incidents related to it. It is like
you using your own hand, caressing you or beating yourself. It is your own extension.
The next question is from Thyagarajan: ‘Dear Swamiji, what should one do to leave the body
without pain and in graceful way?’
Every night when you fall asleep, again and again and again, do death process meditation,
nirbhaya dhyana. So when you do the nirbhaya dhyana, facing all the fears, death process,
it will clear your inner space. Naturally you will enter into painless death and deathless
space.
The next question is from Rani from Bangalore: ‘Why does the consciousness keep moving
from one body to another, as with its next birth it forgets its prarabdha, and has to
waste more time knowing it or not knowing it at all? It does not even realize that it
is choosing to move away from the Source. How does the Source support it at the time
of death?’
As Mahadeva revealed, Source neither supports nor disturbs. It is the part which continues
to keep the idea it is separate, alive, by its own existence. Source feels compassionate
towards the suffering of the part and tries to remind the part in the form of guru, but
unfortunately if the part is too attached to the idea it is a part, it not only does
not want to listen to the Source when it comes in the form of the guru, and blames the guru
is lying about the reality.
The next question is from Dr. Sita from Chennai: ‘Dear Swamiji, how does one understand death
to be a continuity? Does one take the new journey of birth from the place where he lived
in terms of a spiritual level?’
There is no new journey - spiritual economical social educational; in all the levels of Saraswatya,
Lakshmitva and Durgatva, the Kalitva, in all levels the soul starts where it stopped in
the time of death. So there is not even a stopping and starting. It is just letting
the new body to mature. Till the new body grows and matures, the soul rests. The moment
the new body grows and matures it starts expressing its journeys, qualities, the way you live
or leave the wealth, education and mental setup.
The next question is from Uma Sundar from Chennai: ‘Swamiji, it is said that when
you live fully in the moment throughout your life, death when it comes is but another event
gracefully accepted. What is living in the moment according to Kalabhairava?’
Living in the moment means enjoying the totality of past present future. Living in the moment
is not excluding the past and future. It is including, enjoying the impact of the past
into the present and enjoying the possibilities of the future into the present. It is not
that always past pushes you into the present. It is future pulls you into the present. That
is why before even the happening happens you are in the mood which is going to happen.
So it is future’s influence which is more on your present than the past influence. Past
directly influences the future and through the future indirectly influences the present.
Accepting all the 3 influences on the present and enjoying present is the base material
of time. Past is the ghost, future is the projection
of the ghost. Ghost and the projection of the ghost, both of them are projected on the
material called present. That is present moment. Accepting the ghost of the past and projection
of the ghost of the future, projection of the ghost of the past, which is future, in
the present, including the material called present out of which all the three are living,
are enjoying, accepting all the three’s influence over the present moment is living
in the present moment. The great acceptance will make you live the present moment and
experience restful awareness.
The next question is from Devaki from Hyderabad. She is asking, ‘Dear Swamiji, what are the
practices which can help the consciousness to leave the mortal body at will?’
Continuously if you watch your breath and know how the breath goes inside the body and
mixes into your blood, spreads all over the body through your nervous system as energy
which is strengthens the existence and reflection of life in your body, you will know when to
stop the life supporting the individual life in your body; the prana supporting the reflection
and life in your body.
The next question is from Suma from Hyderabad. She is asking, ‘What is conscious death
or graceful exit, and what is the exact lifestyle one needs to live in his lifetime to have
a conscious death?’
Graceful exit means without any pain without any resentment leaving the body with a deep
fulfillment, and deciding further whether to create another one body or once for all
get enlightened and be liberated from the body and minds. The graceful exit naturally
does not have any hangover and gives you the complete choice and possibility of next body
or enlightenment. If you decide to assume the next body you are Incarnation, if you
decide to be in the space of enlightenment you are God. So both choices are between you,
within you. Both are made available for you. The lifestyle you need to live for the graceful
exit is learn gracefully to exit in your life any moment which brings anything to you, whether
you perceive that as good or bad, know how to gracefully exit without any hangover; move
gracefully ahead of everything. Gracefully moving ahead, whether it is pain or pleasure,
joy or life or death; whatever it is, move gracefully ahead.