How To Get Out Of Samskaras?

But if you have completed with that pattern by living a single saṁskāra totally, completely, that saṁskāra leaves you! It drops from your being; you are liberated from it. Completion directly liberates you from karma. Completion directly leads you to experience the Truth.

Social conditioning divides everything into pleasure and pain. Even this decision — 'What kind of life will I choose in my next birth? What kind of body will I take?' – is based upon your social conditioning. You decide to achieve whatever you think is the highest thing in life. You automatically run behind whatever is kept as an ideal in front of your eyes.

Whatever you consider the highest ideal of your whole life, only that comes to your mind when you leave the body. What you remember at Death, So you attain Kṛṣṇa says, 'Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O Kaunteya, that state he will attain without fail.'

What exactly happens at the time of leaving the body? We should understand that. When a person leaves the body, he goes through seven layers of his being.

The first and the outermost layer is the physical layer. When a person leaves the body, it creates tremendous pain in his whole system, what the Upaniṣads liken to 'thousands of scorpions stinging at a time.'

There will be tremendous pain at first. We may ask, 'Why pain?' It is because our being wants to stay in the body, but the body cannot host the being anymore.

In natural death, the body is exhausted, so we leave the body. In an accident, the body is damaged. Naturally there will be tremendous pain. But one thing: there is an automatic mechanism in our being, an automatic painkiller mechanism. What happens is, the moment the pain becomes unbearable, we fall into coma. If we fall into coma, we will not experience pain.

But the big problem is that we die in unconsciousness when we die in coma. That is the worst thing, because we remain unaware of why we took this birth, and we will not be able to make the decision about the next birth consciously.