Consequences of spiritual enlightenment

The body is a certain kind of egg, in which the ultimate potential of spiritual enlightenment is there that can happen– and unless it happens you will continue to have new bodies – but the moment it happens, the body becomes useless.

Most of the people who become enlightened die instantly. They simply cannot breathe anymore. There is no reason why they should breathe. The experience is so big that the heart stops. They have never seen anything like it, it is so unknown. It takes their breath away – literally.

Very few people survive spiritual enlightenment, and the reason why these people survive is strange: people who have been adventurous, people who have enjoyed taking risks, who have lived like a tightrope walker, whose lives have been on a razor’s edge, may survive. The shock will be there, but they are accustomed to smaller shocks. They have never had such a big shock, but smaller shocks have prepared them to accept even this enormous phenomenon. They still continue to breathe; their heart still continues to beat. But still the body suffers in many ways because something has happened that the body cannot understand.

The body has its own wisdom, it has a certain kind of understanding. It functions well within its limits. But enlightenment is not within its limits, it is too far away. It is stretching the body’s capacities too much. So anything that is weak in the body is going to break – and because this is going to be the last body, it will never be needed again. It has fulfilled its function. It has done the miracle. So if you think of the ratio... out of ten enlightened persons at least nine die immediately. And out of ten who do survive, nine remain silent. They lose their grip on the brain.

This has never been said. Many things have never been said, because nobody has asked, nobody has bothered, nobody has enquired. So there are a thousand and one things which are worth taking note of, but nobody has ever talked about them.

For example, why do nine people out of ten die immediately? No scripture of the world discusses it. The question of discussion does not even arise – no scripture even mentions it, and it has been happening for centuries. Perhaps they were afraid that if they say it... People are already not interested in enlightenment, and if you tell them that this is going to be the reward – that you become enlightened and your fuse goes off – this may prevent even those few who might try. They will say, ”What nonsense it is. You work hard to attain enlightenment and what do you get as a reward? –that you are finished! You are not even going to see yourself enlightened. So what is the point? It is a strange game.” Perhaps that’s why it was never mentioned. No scripture mentions that enlightenment disturbs the body and the brain. But I want to say everything exactly as it is, because my understanding is that those who are not interested are not going to be interested, and those who are interested are not going to be prevented by any truth. And in fact it will be good for them to know it ahead of time.

Spiritual Enlightenment certainly disturbs much psychosomatic health, because it is something for which the body is not ready or prepared. Nature has not built anything in the body so that enlightenment can be absorbed. Suddenly a mountain falls on you – you are bound to be crushed.

Why do nine persons out of ten remain silent? At the most it has been said, ”Because truth cannot be said.” It is true, but there is a far more important thing which has not been mentioned. Out of ten people, nine people’s brains get disturbed. They are no longer able to use the brain mechanism for speaking, so it is better, they feel, to remain silent.

They can see perfectly that their brain mechanism is no longer in a functioning state. And naturally...the brain is a very subtle phenomenon; in the small skull of man almost seven million small nerves create your brain. They are so small and so delicate that any small shock can disturb them, can destroy them – and spiritual enlightenment is a tremendous lightning shock. It goes through the brain disturbing many cells, many nerves.

Only one person out of ten can save his brain, and that is the person who has used his brain so much that by sheer use it has become stronger and stronger. If he had not become enlightened, he would have been a great philosopher, a great logician, a great mathematician or a great physicist. He had a strongly built machine which could have been a Bertrand Russell or an Albert Einstein –or a Gautam Buddha.

But ordinarily, people don’t use the brain so much. For ordinary work it is not needed. Only five percent of your capacity – the average human being uses five percent of his brain. And the people you call very great geniuses use only fifteen percent. But if a person has used his brain to at least one-third of its capacity – that is, thirty-three percent – then it might have strength enough to survive enlightenment. Not only can it survive enlightenment, it can serve it too.

Out of ten persons whose brains survive, nine never become masters; only one becomes a master. The nine can at the most be teachers. They can talk about their experience. They can quote scriptures. They can be very famous teachers. People can mistake them for masters; they will have many followers – but they are not masters, because the quality of the master is missing in them.

The master is not only a teacher but a magnet. To teach is one thing, but to teach with a magnetic force so that just by hearing it you are transformed... then there is a master. The teacher can give you words, but he cannot give you life. The teacher can give you explanations, but he cannot give you experience. The teacher can approach your mind, but he cannot reach your heart.

Why does it happen to only one person in ten? Before enlightenment, if a man has been a teacher already... if, although he has not experienced, his intelligence is so comprehensive that he can understand what has happened to others, he need not have to commit mistakes to learn. He can see others committing mistakes, and that is enough for him to learn. And if he has been articulate from his very birth, has enjoyed the very sound of words – their music, their poetry – if he has been expressive, has never found himself in any difficulty as far as expression is concerned, and his expression has been convincing... not that his argument was greater than your argument, but the way he managed to express himself, the poetry of his expression, the argument of his expression, the music of his expression is convincing, and yet he has not experienced himself...If this kind of man happens to become spiritually enlightened, then he is coming with the skill of being very articulate. His enlightenment will add something to his articulateness. It will make it authoritative; it will give it magnetism. It will make it a presence to be felt, a presence to be overpowered by, a presence in which you easily fall into love, into trust.

The teachers who start teaching after their spiritual enlightenment remain amateur. But this man, who has been a teacher already, is immensely enriched by enlightenment as far as being a master is concerned.

It is reported that when Sariputta – one of Gautam Buddha’s chief disciples, and one of the few who became enlightened in Gautam Buddha’s lifetime – when he came to Gautam Buddha, he had come to argue. He was a well-known teacher, and many thought he was a master. He had come with five thousand disciples to argue with Buddha about the basic principles.

Buddha received him with great love and said to both his disciples and Sariputta’s disciples, ”Here comes a great teacher, and I hope that one day he will become a master.”

Everybody was puzzled what he meant by it – even Sariputta.

Sariputta asked, ”What do you mean?”

Gautam Buddha said, ”You argue well, you are articulate, you are an influential intellectual. You have all the qualities of a genius teacher. You have five thousand very intelligent people as your disciples, but you are not a master yet. If you were a master I would have come to you, you would not have come to me. You are a great philosopher, but you know nothing. "And I trust in your intelligence, that you will not lie: say before all these people that you are a thinker but you have not experienced anything. If you say you have experienced, I am ready to discuss with you. But remember, lying is not going to help. You will be caught immediately, because experience has so many things which are not available in the scriptures. So it is better you be clear about it.” I am ready to discuss with you if you say that you have experienced the truth. If you say you have not experienced the truth, I am ready to accept you as my disciple. And I will make you a master, it is a promise – because you are promising. You can choose to lie and discuss with me, or to be true and be a disciple and learn with me, experience with me. And one day when you are a master if you want to discuss with me I will be overjoyed.”

For a moment there was immense silence. But Sariputta was really a man of truth. He said, ”Buddha is right. I have never thought about it, that he is going to ask about experience. I have been debating around the country, defeating many great so-called teachers, making them my disciples” – that was the rule in India. You discuss, and whoever is defeated becomes a disciple.

So he said, ”Many of these disciples were themselves teachers, but nobody ever asked me about experience. I don’t have any experience, so there is no question of discussing right now. Right now I touch the feet of Gautam Buddha. And I will wait for the time when I have experienced, when I am a master myself.”

After three years of being with Buddha, he became enlightened. He was certainly a very potential case... just on the verge. The day he became enlightened, Buddha called him and asked him, ”Do you want to discuss now?”

Sariputta touched Gautam Buddha’s feet again and he said, "That time I touched your feet because I had no experience. This time I touch your feet because I have the experience; the question of discussion does not arise. That time it was impossible to discuss; this time too it is impossible to discuss. There is nothing to discuss. I know, you know – and the knowing is the same. And I am your disciple. I may become a master to others, but to you I will always remain a disciple. You transformed my whole life; otherwise I would have died just arguing unnecessarily, wasting my time and other people’s time.”

The people who have remained silent really got damaged. There was no other way for them except to be silent; the mechanism was broken. They had the experience but they didn’t have the vehicle.

So it is a very rare phenomenon: first to be enlightened, then to survive enlightenment, then to save your brain so that you can be a master. And that depends on whether you exercised your brain before enlightenment to at least one-third of its potential. Less than that won’t do.

Hence my insistence: Don’t believe.

Doubt, think, enquire.

Sharpen your intelligence, at least to one-third of its potential. And meanwhile meditate, so the day you get some spiritual ecstasy, you can say something to the world. You owe it.

Existence waits millions of years for somebody to become enlightened, and when someone becomes enlightened, existence wants him to share, to spread the word, whatsoever the cost, to all those who are fast asleep. They are not all going to awake, but somebody may hear the call. Even if a few hear the call, that is enough reward.

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Work on the roots to change the fruits

What you cannot see in this world is far more powerful than anything you can see consciously. You may or may not agree with this statement, but to the extent that you do not apply this principle of consciousness in your life, you must be suffering. Why? Because you are going against the laws of nature, whereby what is under the ground creates what is above the ground, where what is invisible creates what is visible.

As humans, we are a part of nature, not above it. Consequently, when we align with the laws of nature and work on our roots—our “inner” world—our life flows smoothly. When we don’t, life gets rough.

Imagine a tree. Let’s suppose this tree represents the tree of life. On this tree there are fruits. In life, our fruits are called our results. So we look at the fruits (our results) and we don’t like them; there aren’t enough of them, they’re too small, or they don’t taste good.

So what do we tend to do? Most of us put even more attention and focus, i.e. mindfulness, on the fruits, our results. But what is it that actually creates those particular fruits? It’s the seeds and the roots that create those fruits. It’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.

So what does that mean? It means that if you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible (subconscious part).

Of course, some say that seeing is believing. The question I have for such people is “Why do you bother paying your electric bill?” Although you cannot see electricity, you can certainly recognize and use its power. If you have any doubt as to whether it exists, just stick your finger in an electric socket, and I guarantee that your doubts will quickly disappear.

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow’s fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.

One of the most important things you can ever understand is that we do not live on only one plane of existence. We live in at least four different realms at once. These four quadrants are the physical world, the mental world (mindfulness), the emotional world, and the spiritual world. What most people never realize is that the physical realm is merely a “printout” of the other three.

For example, let’s suppose you’ve just written a letter on your computer. You hit the print key and the letter comes out of your printer. You look at your hard copy, and lo and behold, you find a typo. So you take out your trusty eraser and rub out the typo. Then you hit print again and out comes the same typo. Oh my god, how could this be? You just erased it! So this time you get a bigger eraser and you rub even harder and longer. You even study a three-hundred-page manual called Effective Erasing. Now you’ve got all the “tools” and knowledge you need. You’re ready. You hit print and there it is again! “No way!” you cry out, stunned in amazement. “How could this be? What’s going on here? Am I in the twilight zone?”

What’s going on here is that the real problem cannot be changed in the “printout,” the physical world; it can only be changed in the “program,” the mental, emotional, subtle and spiritual worlds.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your subtle inner world. If things aren’t going well in your outer life, it’s because things aren’t going well in your inner life. It’s that simple.

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Use your hidden or latent senses existing in brain for Esoteric experimentations

Absolute Truth occurs in the Supreme Creational plane and is the cause of the creation. Reality is perceived truth. It is a subjective impression or realization, that is, the effect produced by the truth as the cause in the creational plane, that we perceive by sentient entities. Therefore, reality is not the absolute truth unless and until we can have access to the Supreme Creational plane where the cause took place for the creation. As a result, the knowledge of creation arising from perceived reality that we possess is knowledge of sentient entities which we receive or perceive as subjective impressions, that is, effect of the cause in the Supreme Creational plane.

Based on such repeatable experiments it should be easier for the scientists to accept the conclusion that the activities of subtler world influence those of the gross world as revealed by measurements made by external sense-organs and available instruments of this physical world. The Supreme creator makes prompts, giving each spirit force when he so desires the necessary direction, which is intelligible to that particular individual entity based on his background. He gives the optimal solution as a prompt.

What we see, experience or acquire through our physical senses by way of knowledge of the physical world may merely be the impressions of the effects of the cause which is taking place elsewhere. In other words, what is presented to our view is not the true reality but the perceived reality and presents the distorted version of the true reality which varies from man to man. It, therefore, raises serious doubts over power of human knowledge vis-à-vis the realities in modern day management theory and practice as well.

When the quality of information itself is refractive and not true, one may wonder as to the maximization of the information entropy on the basis of which the decisions in present-day management are normally made. Transformation of such information base into the knowledge base and then to the managerial wisdom leading to decision-making is, therefore, bound to be incorrect and corrupt. Such transformation is left to the ability of the strategic management to maximize the information entropy of the knowledge base and to transform such knowledge base into a managerial wisdom by virtue of higher skills, qualifications, training and experience. The wisdom of the strategic management, however, is the sentient wisdom with relative truth as a result of the perceived reality of the situation by them and not the truth even remotely close to the ultimate truth or even semblance of the truth. This perception is the manifestation of higher consciousness at the plane of physical senses which at best can give partial or inadequate knowledge.

Even while such informed decisions may prove to be the correct decisions, they are not the absolutely right decisions as pointed out in the post-decision audits. Even the best of the decisions of the governments, corporate world or of the individuals in course of time appear to be not the only best decisions as may be proved by the subsequent developments.

The reason for the existence of veils, obstacles or the covers that hide the Real is that the spiritual faculty has not been developed like the physical and the mental faculties. All over the world, the focus is on training of body and the mind. The spiritual faculty has remained more or less neglected and has not been given the due attention unlike its physical and mental counterparts.

The third and the highest level of spiritual education namely the science of spirit force is woefully missing from the syllabi of almost all the educational institutions including the institutes of excellence. The result is the imbalanced development of the human personality and knowledge.

Apara vidya is the body of knowledge derived from the physical senses, what pertains to this world and not beyond it, that is what pertains to the material plane, the physical world in which we live. All modern science speaks about this physical world and this includes informatics, OR and systems science among others. On the other hand, there is a distinct body of knowledge derived from esoteric experimentations and research of the Rishis and Saints particularly in the oriental world, (para vidya, which pertains to the regions beyond our physical world), by making use of hidden or latent senses which exist in the human head and which can be rendered kinetic though meditation, sadhana or to be more precise Surat Shabda Yoga - Surat (spirit force)-Shabda (spiritual sound currents)- Yoga (union) is the yogic (meditational) practice in the religion of Saints referred to as Sultan-ul-Azkar by Sufi saints, for uniting the Atman or Surat with the sound current which accompanies all emanations of spirit current.

Spirituality is the science of spirit or the spirit force. Until and unless this is also imbibed as a part of balanced development, the physical and the mental knowledge acquired in the institutions of knowledge shall remain the perceived knowledge and reality and subjective.This will not be the absolute knowledge or the absolute reality. Transformation of such knowledge into the wisdom base for management decision-making is bound to remain, therefore, a flawed one. The decisions made from such a knowledge platform may not necessarily be the right decisions.

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Spiritual Enlightenment for Seeker of the ancient path

Let him apply his mind to, (the attainment of) final liberation; he who seeks it without having paid (his debts) sinks downwards. 

let him wander about absolutely silent, and caring nothing for enjoyments that may be offered (to him).

Let him always wander alone, without any companion, in order to attain (final liberation), fully understanding that the solitary (man, who) neither forsakes nor is forsaken, gains his end.

Let him not desire to die, let him not desire to live; let him wait for (his appointed) time, as a servant (waits) for the payment of his wages.

Let him put down his foot purified by his sight, let him drink water purified by (straining with) a cloth, let him utter speech purified by truth, let him keep his heart pure.

Let him patiently bear hard words, let him not insult anybody, and let him not become anybody's enemy for the sake of this (perishable) body.

Against an angry man let him not in return show anger, let him bless when he is cursed, and let him not utter speech, devoid of truth, scattered at the seven gates.

Delighting in what refers to the Soul,  sitting (in the postures prescribed by the Yoga), independent (of external help), entirely abstaining from sensual enjoyments, with himself for his only companion, he shall live in this world, desiring the bliss (of final liberation). . . .

By the restraint of his senses, by the destruction of love,  and hatred, and by the abstention from injuring the creatures, he becomes fit for immortality.

Let him reflect on the transmigrations of men, caused by their sinful deeds, on their falling into hell, and on the torments in the world of Yama. 

On the separation from their dear ones, on their union with hated men, on their being overpowered by age and being tormented with diseases,

 On the departure of the individual soul from this body and its new birth in (another) womb, and on its wanderings through ten thousand millions of existences,

 On the infliction of pain on embodied (Limits), which is caused by demerit, and the gain of eternal bliss, which is caused by the attainment of their highest aim, (gained through) spiritual merit.

By deep meditations, let him recognize the subtle nature of the supreme Soul. 

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Sharing our joy, love n friendship, without creating prison for anybody

Try to find your innermost center, where you are always alone, have always been alone. In life, in death – wherever you are you will be alone. But it is so full – it is not empty, it is so full and so complete and so overflowing with all the juices of life, with all the beauties and benedictions of existence, that once you have tasted aloneness the pain in the heart will disappear. Instead, a new rhythm of tremendous sweetness, peace, joy, bliss, will be there.

It does not mean that a man who is centered in his aloneness, complete in himself, cannot make friends – in fact only he can make friends, because now it is no longer a need, it is just sharing. He has so much; he can share.

This other kind of friendship, the other kind of love, has a totally different quality. It is not of need, it is out of having so much that you want to share. A new kind of joy has come into your being – that of sharing, which you were not ever aware of before. You have always been begging.

When you share, there is no question of clinging. You flow with existence, you flow with life’s change, because it doesn’t matter with whom you share. It can be the same person tomorrow – the same person for your whole life – or it can be different persons. It is not a contract, it is not a marriage; it is simply out of your fullness that you want to give. So whosoever happens to be near you, you give it. And giving is such a joy.

You are proud of your blissfulness and all that existence has given to you. Fear disappears, darkness disappears, the pain disappears, the desire for the other disappears.

You can love a person, and if the person loves somebody else there will not be any jealousy, because you loved out of so much joy. It was not a clinging. You were not holding the other person in prison. 

You were not worried that the other person may slip out of your hands, that somebody else may start having a love affair...

When you are sharing your joy, you don’t create a prison for anybody. You simply give. You don’t even expect gratitude or thankfulness because you are not giving to get anything, not even gratitude. You are giving because you are so full you have to give.

So if anybody is thankful, you are thankful to the person who has accepted your love, who has accepted your gift. He has unburdened you, he allowed you to shower on him. And the more you share, the more you give, the more you have. So it does not make you a miser, it does not create a new fear that "I may lose it.” In fact the more you lose it, the more fresh waters are flowing in from springs you have not been aware of before.

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Communion of Sexual Energy and Meditation to reach Spiritual Enlightenment

Sex needs to be conceived as a natural phenomenon. There is nothing profane or sacred in it. It is purely natural life energy of tremendous importance. If you cannot sublimate it, it can destroy you; and it has destroyed humanity.

It is the energy man is born out of; everything is born out of it. Naturally there is no higher energy than sexual energy, but biological reproduction is not its only function. The same energy can have different creative dimensions. The same energy, joined with meditative practices, can be sublimated to the highest peak of consciousness i.e., enlightenment.

Sexual ethics is not a law, instead it is love. Two persons can be sexually related only if love allows. When there is no love, and only law remains as a binding force, it is sheer prostitution.

Law is not love. Marriage is valid only if there is love. The moment love disappears, the marriage is invalid. It means millions of people are living unlovingly, unethically, unnaturally, because of the religions that have forced the arbitrary bondage of marriage and have tried to make it permanent.

Life is continuously changing; nothing is permanent. Love also is not permanent. Only plastic flowers are permanent, real flowers cannot be permanent. If you are too addicted to permanence, then you will end up with plastic flowers; that’s how people have ended up with plastic marriages, plastic relationships – phony, hypocritical. And it gives no pleasure to anybody.

There is a vast prostitution all over the world. Ordinarily when you go to a prostitute, you purchase her for one night. At least it is straightforward. But when you marry a woman, promising her that you will love her always, even beyond death – and even before the honeymoon ends, the love disappears– then you live in deception. Now you are using a human being as a thing, as a sexual object. It should be condemned.

Love should be the only law, the only deciding factor. And the energy of sex should not remain confined to reproduction only. It is simple to see the fact that animals are not sexual all the year round, they just have their seasons. In those few months or few weeks they are sexual; otherwise sex disappears. Why has man the capacity to be sexual all the year round? There must be a purpose behind it. Existence never does anything meaninglessly.  My understanding is that reproduction could have been managed within a few weeks, just as it is  being managed in all the animals. But man has been given so much sexual energy.. . . it is a clear  indication that existence wants you to transform this energy into higher levels of consciousness and this is my idea of expanding consciousness –  and it can be transformed. Just as it can give birth to children, it can give birth to you. It can make you reborn, with a new vision, new bliss, new light, and a totally new being. All that is needed is that the sexual energy should be joined with meditation. 

That is where sexual ethics comes in picture: sex energy plus meditation. 

And it is the easiest thing to join them, because while making love, the moment you come to an orgasmic explosion, your thoughts disappear, time stops. Suddenly you have melted into the other,  you are no longer an ego. And these are the qualities of meditation: no ego, no time, no thinking.  Just pure awareness and a melting into the whole.  Where sexual orgasm ends, meditation begins. They can be joined very easily. The easiest thing to do is to join them, they are so close.  My own insight is that people came to discover meditation through sexual orgasm because of these qualities. They could see that when thoughts stop, time stops, ego disappears and you are in a tremendously beautiful space. Although it lasts only for seconds, it has given you the taste of something that is not of this world, something of the beyond.

We don’t know who discovered meditation, perhaps thousands of years ago. In the East, we have books at least ten thousand years old, describing methods of meditation. But any method brings the same qualities.  This is my feeling, that without sexual orgasm, nobody could have been able to discover these three qualities. Once they discovered these three qualities, people of intelligence must have tried to experience them without going into sexual orgasm. Is it possible to attain to such a state of higher consciousness?  Somebody must have succeeded, and since then millions of people have succeeded.  

The whole of humanity lives in misery for the simple reason that they have the wrong kind of sexual ethics, a kind which teaches them to repress it. And the more you repress your sexuality, the farther away you are from meditation. The more you repress it, the closer you are to madness, not to meditation.  And now it is a fact established by psychoanalysis that repressed sex is the basic cause of human misery, of all kinds of perversions, of all kinds of mind sicknesses. But the religions still go on preaching the same thing.  Sigmund Freud should be remembered as one of the milestones in the history of man. But his work  is only half. He simply fought against repression; his work is negative. In itself it takes you nowhere;  it is fighting against darkness.  Goals of  sexual ethics must reach to completion. Repression has to be dropped. And a deep acceptance, a deep friendliness towards your own energies, a loving intimacy with your own energies so those energies  can reveal all their secrets to you... And joining them with meditation, orgasm becomes the door to  the temple of the divine. 

If sex is the creative force in the world, it must be nearest to the creative center of the world  – whatever name you give to it. Creative energy must be closest to creation, to the creative source of it all.  People should be taught the art of converting sexual energy into spiritual enlightenment.

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Just like Black Holes, there might be White Holes too

Everything in this world begins and ends;

nothing can remain forever. Perhaps this earth, this planet, will come to its end.

Science has discovered black holes in existence. You cannot see them; there is nothing to see.You can see only one thing: if some planet comes close to black holes, it is simply sucked in, and it disappears out of existence. That is the death of the planet. Because of the black holes, some scientists have assumed there must be white holes which give birth to new planets. That seems to be logical because in existence there is always a polarity. Black holes are almost certain. White holes are still a hypothesis.

Even if a nuclear third world war does happen on the earth, and if man is stuck and cannot evolve more, then some black hole will simply suck it up. Black holes are one of the most mysterious things in physics. We don’t know anything yet, and perhaps we may not ever know anything, because we cannot go inside them. Once you are gone, then you are gone forever. You cannot return.

Those black holes are meant to decreate – and they are doing their work. Every day some planet, his some sun, dies, and the way it dies is by being sucked up by a black hole. It is just like death: death is a black hole into which you are sucked. But you are born into another womb. Perhaps there are white holes; perhaps on the other side of the black hole, there is a white hole. So on this side the old is dismantled, destroyed, and on the other side a new planet, with new potential, with new hopes, with new aspirations, is born.

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Why the masses have never thirsted after truth

Truth has its own world. It consists of a very few courageous people who can stand against the masses. It is difficult. It is risking your comfort, it is risking your life, it is risking your respectability, it is risking everything. You can see an extra ordinary  example of one ARVIND KEJRIWAL  in india.. how he has risked everything, how he has lost everything. He don’t even have a character among masses except few. The whole world is against him– because he simply went on insisting that the king is naked – and others(masses) may be millions, but they are all liars.

I have to tell u an osho story here:

    A man said to an emperor, "You have conquered the whole world. This is unique. You are the first, and God is so happy that I can persuade him to bring his clothes for you. They will be simply without any comparison to what has ever existed or will ever exist again.”

God’s clothes? The emperor could not believe it. But he thought, "What is the harm in it?” He said,"Remember, if you deceive me death will be the reward for it.”

The man said,"That I know; about that you need not be worried. But much money will be needed to go to heaven, to bribe the whole bureaucracy in heaven, because it is not easy to approach God.”

The king said, "How much it costs does not matter but you will have to stay next to this palace in another palace surrounded by the army. You cannot go out. You do whatsoever you want to do from inside. Everything will be supplied to you, and whatever you ask for will be immediately given to you. You bring the clothes.”

And after seven days, as promised, the man came out with a beautiful box. The whole capital had gathered and people from faraway places had come. The capital had never seen such crowds. God’s clothes? Who would not like to see them?

The court of the king was full. For the first time everybody was present; the queen was present, the princesses were present. The man said to the court and to the king, ”I have brought the clothes. And for these clothes, the two, three million rupees that you have given are nothing. When you see the clothes you will see they are a thousandfold more costly. In fact you cannot appraise their cost on the earth; they are something that belongs to heaven. They are not found on the earth.”

The king was in a hurry. He said, ”Open your box!”

The man said, ”The way it must be done has been explained to me. You give me your cap. First I will put your cap into the box, then I will take out the cap of God and put it on your head. Just one condition has to be remembered by all: the cap will be seen only by those who are really born of their own fathers. Those who are not born of their own fathers will not be able to see it.”

The king said, ”There is no problem. In this court everybody is born of his own father. You don’t be worried, just open the box.” He gave him his cap. The man threw it into the box and took out his hand, empty. Nobody could see anything; neither could the king see anything. But now they were all caught in a difficulty: if they say the truth, then they lose respectability. The king thought it is wiser to accept the cap and say, ”How beautiful it is!” So he accepted the nonexistent cap and said, ”How beautiful it is!”

Everybody in the court was praising the cap, saying that they had never seen such a thing. And because everybody was saying, ”It is unique,” everybody was also thinking, ”Perhaps I am the only one..Now there is no point in saying the truth – that I don’t see it at all! That will disgrace me; it will disgrace my father, it will disgrace my mother. It will not be possible to live, it will be such a disgrace. So it is better to keep silent. When so many people see it, it must be real.” And one by one the clothes disappeared, and the king finally came to the underwear.

The man said, "Give me your underwear,” and the king thought, ”This is really too much! From the cap till now it was okay, but now to give my underwear... And I know perfectly well that this is a con man. But he is really cunning: I cannot even say, ‘I don’t see the underwear.’ ” Now it was too late; up to now – the coat, the shirt – he has praised. He was caught in his own lies. 

Everybody saw that the king was going to be naked. And he had to be naked – reluctantly, but there was no other way – otherwise he would disgrace this whole royal family, that he is not born... because the whole court sees the clothes! So he had to accept the nonexistent underwear.

And that man was something! He said, "Millions of people have gathered in the capital. I have been told by God himself, ‘When my clothes go there and the king wears them, he should go through the capital in his chariot so everybody sees the clothes.’ ” And the people of the court were all enthusiastic: it is a great thing to show to the public what our emperor has got – a gift from God!

And everybody can see that the emperor is naked! This man is a perfect con. He has befooled the whole court, he has befooled the king, and now he will befool the whole capital, millions of people. In front of the chariot of the king a man was shouting loudly, ”The clothes can be seen only by those who are born of their own fathers; otherwise you cannot see them. They are not something human, they are divine.” The naked king on a golden chariot and millions clapping and shouting with joy, ”What beautiful clothes!” And everybody was thinking, ”My God, the king is completely naked – but millions of people see the clothes, so to go against these millions and say that the king is naked is absolutely absurd, it is just to be condemned. Maybe people will kill you, stone you to death: ‘You are such a disgrace!’ ”

Just a small child who had come with his father, and was sitting on his shoulders, whispered in his father’s ear, ”Dad, the king is completely naked!”

The father said, ”Shut up! When you grow up you will also see that he is not naked. You can’t see – nobody else sees – that he is naked.”

He said, ”But my growing up – what has it to do with his being naked? He is naked!”

The man said, ”You keep quiet or I will take you home and never bring you to anything.”

The boy said, ”I can keep quiet, but I cannot see the clothes.”

The man had to escape because others may hear that the boy does not see the clothes and that will mean that he is not his boy, his son, that his wife is deceiving him, having some affair with somebody

else.

The boy asked again and again, ”Why are you taking me away?”

The father said, ”For these things one needs to grow up first. You are too small; you don’t understand.”

”But,” the boy asked, ”what is the question of understanding? With my eyes I can see everything, and you have never suspected that I am seeing wrong. The king is naked!”

And the father said, ”He is not naked, the clothes are divine. It needs some maturity to see it.”

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Benefits of yoga and how it found techniques to prolong our life span

 Man is not a machine but an organism, and the difference between the two is very significant to understand. The machine has parts, the organism has members. You can take the parts apart; nothing dies. You can put the parts together again and the machine starts functioning. But in an organism if you take the members apart, something dies. You can put them together again, but the organism will not be alive again. The organism is a living unity; everything is connected with everything else.

Whatever happens to you, in the body or in the mind or in the heart or in your awareness, is going to change everything in the whole organism. You are going to be affected as a whole. The members of the organic unity are not just parts put together, there is something more.

A machine is simply a sum total of its parts. An organism is something more than the sum total of its parts – and that ”more” is your soul which penetrates everything in you. So every change, wherever it happens, is going to ring bells all over your being.

That’s why there are different systems. For example, yoga is one of the most prominent systems for those who are working for self-realization. But almost its whole function is with the body, the body postures. It is a tremendous research – the people who have done it, have done an almost impossible job. They have found in what postures your mind takes a certain attitude, your heart takes a certain rhythm, your awareness becomes more acute or less acute. They have developed all the body postures in such a way that just working on the body, not touching anything else, they will change your total being. It is long, tedious, difficult work, because the body is an absolutely unconscious part of your being. To train it, and in strange postures which are not natural, is bound to be a difficult job. You will be surprised to know that because the yoga system found that this life is too short to work on all the postures of the body, to change the whole inner being, they were the first in the world to think of lengthening the life so that they can accomplish the task in this life.

The difficulty with the body is, you may have worked your whole life – sixty years, seventy years –and you may have come to a certain state, but this body will die. And when you get a new body, you will have to start from scratch; you cannot start from where you had stopped in the past life. This was such a great difficulty for the yoga system that they started looking at how to lengthen the body’s life span. They found exact ways, which are now confirmed by science from other investigations.

Science is still not involved in looking at what yoga has found, but working on different things, psychologists have come to know that if you eat less, you live longer. You will be thin, you won’t look so beautiful, but your life will be lengthened. If you eat more, you may look good, but your life will be shortened. Even today there are people who eat so little that you cannot conceive how they survive, but they survive longer than anybody else – I used to know a man who died in his one hundred and fortieth year. And the whole process is just to take as little food as possible. The reason is not that they want to live long; the reason is that they have developed a system that is concerned with the body, and the body is our most unconscious part: it does not change easily. It takes a long time, but it does change.

I have found people who have done almost miracles just by body postures which look irrelevant, because consciousness is such a faraway thing. But just sitting in a certain posture you will be surprised: you can watch how you change. Everybody knows about the lotus posture in which you see Buddha sitting. That is the most famous posture. It has been found now that gravitation has the least effect on you if sit in the lotus posture with your spine absolutely straight and the whole body relaxed. And it is gravitation that kills you; the more you are affected by gravitation, the more you are pulled towards the grave.

It became perfectly clear when Einstein declared that if we can find vehicles moving with the same velocity, the same speed, as light, then the people who go in those vehicles will not age – not at all. If they leave the earth and come back after fifty years, all their contemporaries will be dead. Perhaps one or two may still be alive – on their deathbeds – but they will come back exactly the same age as when they left. His idea was that at the speed of light, aging stops. But that is only an hypothesis, there is no experiment to prove it. It is difficult to find a vehicle which will move with the speed of light, because at that speed everything will burn up. There is no metal, there is no material, out of which you can make the vehicle, so it seems to be impossible.

But Einstein was not aware of the yoga explanation. The yoga explanation is that the person can come back to the earth the same age because he has been out of the field of gravitation – that’s why he cannot age. And that seems to be far more practical, far more scientific – not just an hypothesis. Thousands of yogis have lived longer than anybody else. Just sitting in that posture, gravitation has the least effect on them.

And why does eating less or fasting help to lengthen life? The yoga system has found that when you eat, your food is doing two things. One, it is giving you nourishment. That we know; that’s why we eat. Second – of which we are not aware – is that eating is tiring your digestive system; it is becoming older. The more it has to digest the less young it is. Your life depends on your digestive system. So if you eat less, your nourishment will be less, you will be thin – you will not be a Mohammed Ali, you will not be able to do boxing – but you can live long because your digestive system will remain young, fresh, almost clean. So much work has been dropped that the digestive system can work much longer. The digestive system working longer, and gravitation having the least effect on you, can easily make your life one hundred and fifty, sixty years long. And the reason for living long was not lust for life but because they had chosen a very slow vehicle of transformation: the body.

But through the body people have reached to enlightenment. They have not done anything but change body postures. In a certain posture the mind functions in a certain way. In one posture it stops functioning, in another posture you become very alert; and you know it, but you have never cared to go deeper into it. When you go to sleep why do you lie down? That is simply changing the posture. Sitting and sleeping is difficult, standing and sleeping is more difficult, standing on your head and sleeping is almost impossible. If you are standing on your head and you try to sleep... You can make arrangements, you can tie your feet to something and have every protection so that even if you fall asleep you will not fall down on the earth – even then you will not be able to sleep, because so much blood is rushing into your head. For sleep, the blood should not be going into the head with great speed, in great amounts. It should be going less – that’s why everybody uses a pillow: it is a yoga posture.

Yoga has been thinking of every detail – like why do you want a pillow? Without a pillow it is difficult to sleep because the flood of blood remains equal in the feet and in the head. But with a pillow the head automatically receives less blood and the activity in the head slows down. Intellectuals need two pillows so that that big quantity of blood is cut off completely; otherwise they cannot sleep. You can see this happening in ordinary life also: with every mood, emotion, thought, your body takes a certain posture. If you are just watchful you will see that there is a relationship, and the relationship is such that you cannot change it.

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Introduction to science of Tantra System, Vibrations and Akashik records

In the presence of a master you start feeling a different vibration around you. It is his awareness radiating through his body. He may speak, he may not speak, but his presence... Those who are alert will immediately become connected with the master’s body. It vibrates differently.

Now we know that you can put vibrations on gramophone records. Nothing is written, there are only lines; certain vibrations have been caught in those lines. You cannot read them but you can listen to them. With tape, the same technology has become even better: you can erase the vibrations, and you can put on other vibrations.

In the ancient literature of tantra they have a very strange idea which, in the contemporary world, the Theosophical Movement introduced again. It was the idea of akashic records; akash means the sky. The tantra idea is that anyone who is enlightened creates vibrations which are recorded by the sky itself because those vibrations are the treasure of existence. And tantra treatises indicate that there are methods by which you can listen to those records. But there has been a great calamity. People destroyed...

Peoples have always been against anything that was strange – and tantra was one of the most strange things. And because it was basically about the sublimation of sexual energy, the whole orthodox mind became against it. They never bothered that it has many other ideas which are very significant. Fanatics don’t care. They destroyed their temples, they destroyed their scriptures, they destroyed and killed their masters.

They prevented tantra from exploring its different dimensions further, and this dimension remained incomplete, but I feel there is some truth in it. If existence wants every conscious being to become enlightened, then when he becomes enlightened his record, his vibrations, his words, his silences, should become part of a treasure.

The tantra idea was that that treasure can be opened through certain methods, and we can know for certain whether Krishna existed or not, whether Mahavira existed or not, whether Buddha existed or not, whether Jesus was really enlightened or not. Those records will reveal everything. But because the scriptures have been destroyed and burned, we don’t know what methods they were suggesting or what methods they had tried.

But my own experience is, that wherever anybody has become enlightened there are certain vibrations still. Thousands of years may have passed but those vibrations are still there – in the trees, in the earth, in the mountains. You can still feel some strange kind of presence. The man is not there, the singer may have died, but his record is still there and you can hear the voice again.

So be watchful of whatever happens to your body. As you are becoming more alert and more aware, you will feel more loving towards your body, more compassionate towards your body; you will feel more close, more intimate, a kind of new friendship arising. Up to now you have simply used it. You have never said even a thank you to your body – and it has been serving you in every possible way.

So it is a good experience. Let it become more intense and help it. And the only way to help is to become more alert.

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Realizing GOD within

There may be a thousand radii but they all converge at the one center, and that is the realization of God. Something behind this world of sense, this world of eternal eating and drinking and talking nonsense, this world of false shadows and selfishness. There is that beyond all books, beyond all creeds, beyond the vanities of this world and that is the realization of God within oneself. A man may believe in all the churches in the world; he may carry in his head all the sacred books ever written; he may baptize himself in all the rivers of the earth still if he has no perception of God, I would class him with the rankest atheist. And a man may have never entered a church or a mosque; nor performed any ceremony; but if he realizes God within himself, and is thereby lifted above the vanities of the world, that man is a holy man, a saint, call him what you will....I will add that it is good to be born in a church, but it is bad to die there. It is good to be born a child, but bad to remain a child. Churches, ceremonies, symbols, are good for children; but when the child is grown up, he must burst either the church or himself.

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What happens at the time of death and after

For centuries men have been told that they themselves are the temples of God. But they have not been shown exactly how to enter those temples and there to meet God. This system offers the method. It gives the key to that temple. It bids the student open the door and enter. Ever since men began to speculate concerning what lies out beyond death, mankind has stood silent at the graves of Its loved ones, shuddering at 'the dark unknown'. But to the Masters and their students there is no dark unknown. They know what  comes after death as well as they know any ordinary fact of this life. How? Because the Master and his advanced students are able at will to pass through the gates of death, to see what is there, and then return to normal life at any time and as often as they wish. Thus they have, while still living in the body, conquered the last enemy.

Whenever men have started to think and reflect upon the human condition, they have found themselves drifting with the tides, helpless victims of a thousand ills, driven by apparently blind forces, obstructed and harassed at every turn, wounded and bleeding, heartsick and weary; and there has been but precious little  they could do to change the situation. Who has not realized his inability to cope with the thousand and one enemies constantly besetting his path? But the Masters and their disciples are not so helpless. They are not like the chaff driven by the winds. A Master is a Master indeed. He controls life and death, and he holds the forces of nature in his hand as a mechanic manipulates his machine. Life to the Masters holds no unsolved problems; death to them has no terrors. To them the future is an open book, and joy goes with them all the day long, like the sweet chime of bells. Since all the world is seeking happiness, here is the Royal Road to happiness. It is el Camino Real of the Masters.

What happens at the Time of Death and after?

To solve this riddle, people have spared no efforts. The intellect fails. The learned and the illiterate are equally helpless in resolving this mystery. The reason is that no one has returned after death to relate to us his knowledge. Again and again the thought crosses our mind, how satisfying it would be if someone had gone to the regions beyond death and had returned to narrate his actual experiences! We merely make guesses, but with no success. No telescope is able to see the regions beyond death, nor are they accessible to the airplane. These instruments and machines can merely tell us a little about the material regions. They are of no value where the higher regions are concerned.

This subject has been dealt with at length by the Saints. They have described the method of passing through the Gate of Death and of conquering death. By following this method, a devotee can also pass through the Gate of Death and travel through the regions beyond it. He leaves and returns to his physical body at will. While doing this he is completely conscious, and whatever scenes he witnesses he vividly remembers.

Plutarch described the state at the time of death as follows:

At the moment of death, the soul experiences the same impressions and passes through the same processes as are experienced by those who are initiated into the Great Mysteries.

Those who follow the instructions of a True Master die daily – while living. They go into the regions above, and they come back into the same physical body at will.

By Simran all the active energy in the body is concentrated at the eye centre, by Contemplation it is fixed there; and by means of the Sound Current it ascends to higher regions. When consciousness separates from the body, it is known as dying while living. The practitioner leaves his body in the same way that the soul leaves it at the time of death. The difference is only this – that his connection with the physical body is not completely broken. There is a silver cord, referred to in the Bible (Ecc. 12:6), by means of which one can leave the body and return to it at will and be at all times connected with the body.

In this manner he gets an insight into death while living. He travels in the Astral, the Causal and the higher regions, and becomes fully familiar with them. He is able to meet and talk with the inhabitants of these regions.

One of the benefits of the teachings of the Saints is that a disciple crosses the Gate of Death in a state of happiness and thus conquers it. This is the experience of all disciples who have been blessed with the Grace of the Master. It is not merely talk or a fable taken from some book of holy Scriptures.

People in general, whether literate or illiterate, believe that no one knows what lies beyond death and that no one has ever returned. They are afraid of the very name of death, for they know nothing about it nor as to how it comes about.

But the Saints teach us how to go beyond death while living. Whoever desires to learn this from them can easily do so and thus be free of ignorance. Death has no fear for a follower of the Path of the Saints.

If one learns the art of dying while living, he can forever end the cycle of birth and rebirth. He loses all fear of death, for every day he crosses its gate. Therefore, Saints eulogize the state of dying while living and teach the manner of doing it. Death is sweet if a person can die while living.

Dadu says:

Oh Dadu learn to die first, for everyone has to die soon or late.

The Koran also enjoins that one should die before his death. This does not mean that one should commit suicide. After death every soul has to go helplessly to the Astral and higher regions.

 The Scriptures enjoin:

Where you have to go after death, go there by dying while living.

Practice such a yoga as will take you to the regions above during your sojourn in this world.

Saints die while living, many times a day at will, and traverse the upper realms. They sever their connections with the physical world during their spiritual practice, and then return to the world. They have no difficulty in doing this.

Dying while living is not accomplished easily. The method can be gained only through the Grace of a Master. Only that person can die while living who has subdued his mind and curbed his desires and cravings, and has annihilated his ego. This is not as simple as it may seem. It is not as easy to do as it is to talk about. One achieves it by renouncing all desires for the world. So long as desires assail the body, the soul cannot succeed in leaving it.

It is only by detaching oneself from the body and mind that one can die while living. When for the first time the soul leaves the pot of clay (body) during practice, it has to pass through the Gate of Death. Giving up the world and its desires and surrendering completely to the ever-helpful Master, let your soul rise to higher regions. You will experience no trouble.

The body is an ocean of Spirituality which none can fathom. Only one who dies while living can obtain pearls of super-consciousness from it. Otherwise, the treasure remains completely hidden. One who dives deep in the ocean and rises up into the sky will make the higher regions his abode and will realize the jewel of the Lord. So long as we yearn for life (in this world) we can never obtain this precious Jewel.

It is through the Grace of the Lord that a rare devotee who dies while living can find this Jewel.

If you wish to realize God, you must die while living, for it is impossible to attain Him so long as you do not die. So long as you cherish worldly desires, God-Realization will not come to you.

A person who dies while living lives forever. One who looks upon life in this world and death with the same attitude, is also free from death. This dying while living has nothing to do with being cremated or buried. It is a state or condition in which the Master bestows eternal life on his disciples.

Maulana Rumi says:

It is not death that will take you. It is a tomb. Death is a change that will usher you into light from darkness, and bestow eternal bliss upon you. You need have no fear of death, for apart from the physical body you have other bodies. Therefore, do not be afraid to come out of this body.

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly"

We can never realize true life so long as we do not go beyond the domain of death or, in other words, so long as we are not born into the subtle higher regions. 

Christ says:

Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

St. John 3:3

Maulana Rumi says:

Oh friend! If you wish to attain life eternal, then die before death overtakes you. Oh good-natured friend! Die before death overtakes you, surrender your life to the Lord, and thus walk away from this life. So long as you do not die while living, how can you ever get the fruit of Life? Therefore, die while living and avail yourself of the value of this human life.

Maulana Rumi further says:

The whole world keeps dying after death, for no one dies the real death. I have died a death that will make me never die again. So long as you do not know how to die while living, you will not gain freedom from the cycle of birth and death.

You cannot reach the top of a house unless you ascend all the steps of a ladder. If there were a hundred steps and a person should climb only ninety-eight, he would still remain ignorant about the housetop. If a well were a hundred feet deep and a person had ninety-nine feet of rope, he would fail to fill his vessel with water. In the same way, so long as the soul does not go completely beyond the domain of the body and the senses, it can never know the scenes of the upper realms.

Hafiz also says:

Oh man! So long as you do not go out of the body, how can you ever tread the path of Spirituality?

Kabir expresses the same thought very aptly:

Spirituality is a tall tree. Its fruits hang in the sky and only a rare bird can partake of them.

Only those persons who die while living can taste the fruits. Therefore, so long as the soul does not leave the body completely during one’s lifetime, births and deaths will continue.

When the soul ascends within, it comes across the galaxy of stars. So long as the soul does not cross this region, it is not able to behold the sun and the moon nor the Radiant Form of the Master.

Oh wise man! So long as the veil of the body does not vanish, the Radiant Form of the Master does not manifest. Therefore, make a real death your own and remove this veil of the body. Oh man living in the Will of God! (Gurmukh) The Master confers this death upon you to enable you to live eternally. So long as you remain alive on this earth, you should be able to leave your body at will and traverse the higher regions.

The spiritual regions are the abode of your soul. If a person dies such a death, his soul need not return to this world any more.

Maulana Rumi says:

Oh soul! Your abode is in heaven. You are an inhabitant of that place. Unfortunately, you have become prisoner in this pot of clay.

Soami Ji also affirms:

Your abode is there, where the physical body does not exist. Why are you then tied down to this physical body?

A person whose soul has traversed the upper realms, before death has overtaken him, can alone understand what it is to die while living. Intellect is helpless to comprehend this phenomenon.

The chief essential in Spirituality is to die while living, because it is after such a death that the soul becomes really alive. Most people in the world are ignorant of this true path, for they are afraid to die while living.

Where can we find this true spiritual knowledge?

We can do so by transcending our intellectual knowledge. The Real Being can be found only by going above the physical being. Self-realization can come only by transcending the physical self. So long as you do not die a real death, how can you gain these benefits?

Therefore:

Oh man! Go and die this true death so you will fulfil the real purpose of human life. Oh ignorant man! So long as you do not die this true death, never will you be able to stand in God’s presence.

This is the real secret of dying before death. Only by dying such a death does one become eligible for the Grace of God. There is no other method by which one can be accepted in the Court of the Lord.

Remember that the gracious look of the Master is better than a thousand efforts. It is highly rewarding, for it pulls the soul out of the nine portals and collects it at the Tenth Gate.

Our own sharpness, cleverness and effort are not fully beneficial, for thereby one may be led astray and have to face numerous privations. The Grace of the Master, one can gain by dying while living. In other words, it is obtained by making the soul currents leave the body and concentrate at the Third Eye. It is only the dauntless disciple, who has full faith in the Master, who realizes this Grace.

It is the Grace that brings about devotion; and it is devotion that entitles one to His Grace. Both go hand in hand.

But such a death, namely, dying while living, can be had only through the Grace of the Master. There is no other way. The lovers of the Lord, by dying while living, ever drink the wine of happiness and bliss. This is the privilege of those to whom the Master Himself offers the ‘Wine’.

Shamas-i-Tabriz says:

How wonderful it would be if you should take your soul out of the body some night, and rise above to higher realms after leaving the ‘tomb’ of your body. If your soul should do this, you would forever escape death’s sword. You would enter a garden that knows no autumn.

The natural death can relieve us from the worries of the world; but if we die while living we are rid of the sufferings of all the regions and end the cycle of birth and death.

It is for this reason that Maulana Rumi boldly asserts:

Oh Soul! Wake up, rise above before death overtakes you; and behold the kingdom of everlasting peace and bliss.

What really is this dying while living?

The headquarters of the soul in the body is at the eye centre, and from here the entire body receives its energy currents. In the practice of dying while living, there is no need to stop breathing. Simply collect your full attention at the eye centre by doing Simran, thus depriving the senses of their motive energy.

The body will then appear as a corpse. In other words, the gross senses should cease to function and the fine ones get awakened, so that the soul can rise to subtle regions and behold their glory.

The soul cannot behold the spiritual regions with the physical eyes nor can it hear the Divine Music with the physical ears. There the feet do not carry one. Nor are the hands of any help. Even the tongue can give no aid.

Guru Angad gives an description of the condition of dying while living.

He says:

You have to see without eyes. You have to hear without ears. You have to walk without feet. You have to work and speak, using neither hands nor tongue. Even while living you have to die, and only then can you hear the ‘Word’ of God and meet your Beloved.

Tulsi Das also affirms this condition.

There are many methods by which the soul can be concentrated at its headquarters, that is, by which one can die while living. But the method of Simran, Dhyan and Dhun is the easiest and best means of achieving this state without difficulty.

By Simran and Dhyan the soul collects and enters the Tenth Gate. By listening to the Shabd Dhun it comes out, drawn upwards by the Shabd’s magnetic force. Without these practices it is impossible to leave this “pot of clay." No other method exists.

Dying while living can be accomplished only through Guru’s ‘Shabd’. Only then does one ferry cross this ocean of phenomena.

Soami Ji says:

Save Shabd, there is no other way to effect release from birth and death.

Dying with the help of Shabd, one attains everlasting life. A devotee of Shabd never dies a second time.

One who dies while living begins to tread the path that is exactly opposite to that of death. He attains the ‘Sunn’ state.

He truly drinks nectar and becomes worthy of true devotion. Such a person attains God-Realization and is honoured in the Court of the Lord.

The condition of dying while living is the result of the Master’s Grace, listening to His Satsang, and devoting oneself to Naam Bhakti. It is only then that one crosses the ocean of life and is acclaimed in the Court of the Lord as having fulfilled the mission of human life.

The disciple or the devotee is the only one who works for everlasting bliss. In other words, he is the one who practises the Shabd that confers this bliss. Such a one knows both life and death, and treats them alike. Such a one is the beloved of the Lord.

The state of dying while living is the state of separating the conscious from the material. This is a highly evolved state. Such a person knows himself and his mind, and comprehends the mysteries of life. But this state can be achieved only by persons on whom descends the Grace of the Lord through an Adept.

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