1. Reality is a Dream

You may say death is the event that happens at the end of our lives. If death were nothing more than that, it would be so easy! But death is that which is happening every moment of our lives. Death changes the very quality of our life. It is not the end, but it is the climax of our lives - towards which our whole life is being oriented.

The Reason-- If you deeply analyze, our whole life is controlled by our concept of death. Even our social structure is guided by our concept of death. The cultures which believe in a single life, with no concept of reincarnation, have poured all their energies into excelling in life because there is only life available. They have achieved the peak in terms of assimilation of information, gaining of knowledge and material comforts. (c) These cultures have given rise to Science. Science helps us live life at its optimum. Science helps us get the maximum out of this life. On the other hand, the cultures which believe in reincarnation have turned the focus of their life inwards. Their search is different. They are not motivated to live life in a hurry, because Eternity is granted to them. But these cultures have developed the Inner Science. They have the leisure to turn their minds to the inner search, to ponder over the meaning of life. © © 2020 SriNithyanandaParamashivam. All Rights Reserved © © 2020 Sri Nithyanan Source: Nithy Our whole mental set-up, the course of our lives, our society, our culture, our religion - everything is based on nothing but our idea of death. We try our best not to think about death - but death pervades every moment of our life! Not only that, all our fears of losing our name and fame, losing our loved ones, losing our physical and mental health etc are all subtly related to our fear of death. ©

Swadhishtana - 'Where your being is established'. swa means self and adhishthana means established. Location: 2 inches below the navel Locked by: Fear, especially the fear of Death Unlocked by: Acceptance of Death Meditation technique from: Vedanta Name of technique: Nirbhaya Dhyana © Between the two chakras of muladhara(root chakra) and swadhishtana, we are born, we live and we die. Our very existence is centered around either greed or fear all the time. We don't know any other way of life. We don't have the courage to take on any other way of life. Without fear, the word Death itself loses the meaning which we have been associating with it. Fear is the root cause of the way we look at Death. ©

Why is the whole of humanity struggling against one thing, the only thing that is a certainty in all our lives? Can we make the whole earth flat? No, it is a proven fact that the earth is round. But if we struggle against this fact, then there is something wrong in our struggle, in our understanding. It is the same with death too. Why are we struggling to accept the truth? Because of the struggle, most people die unable to accept death when it comes - just as they have lived, unable to accept life as it is. © © WE ARE AFRAID BECAUSE INSTINCTIVELY WE RESIST CHANGE AND DEATH IS AN ABRUPT CHANGE IN LIFE. ©

The master Chuang Tzu says beautifully, ‘Man’s thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present. We are afraid because we do not know who we are. We hold an identity of ourselves inside us, based on our family, relationships, job, wealth, social image etc. Death removes this very foundation on which our identity is built, so we feel death snatches everything that is ours. Our understanding about death, or rather our misunderstanding about death, makes death a fearful, frightening experience. The man who resists death dies even while he lives. He dies every moment because he is tortured by the very idea of death. (C) Death does not only mean physical death. Losing anything is a form of death. Losing your comfortable life is one form of death, losing your relatives is another. Loss in any form is nothing but death. There are two issues: the incident of death that happens at the end of our lives, and psychological death. Real death happens only once, but psychological death, the fear of death, permeates our life. The idea and fear of death decides our entire life structure. © © You may ask why people are so depressed and disturbed when they lose their close relatives. Even if you are not emotionally attached to them and in a sense are waiting for them to die you will be deeply affected by their death! It is more so when you are close to them, attached to them emotionally. Whenever your mother dies your whole left side will suffer. Whenever your father dies, your whole right side will suffer. Whenever your brothers die your hands will suffer. © Śāstra Pramāṇa - शास्त्र प्रमाण vāyur-anilam amṛtam athedaṁ bhasmāntagam śarīram | auṁ krato smara kṛtaguṁ smara krato smara kṛtaguṁ smara || 17 || Translation: Let the vital life-energy ‘Wind’ present in the body, now merge into the all-pervading, eternal cosmic life-energy; and now let this gross body along with subtle body, disintegrate into its basic elements and be reduced to the sacred ashes. ©