Death Is a Celebration - Vol 2

HOW TO ACTUALLY

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VIEW DEATH?

Death is nothing but a job change, profession change or career change. It has no significance. Just like you change your jobs, change your career, change your profession, sometime change the city you are living in, sometime change your spouse, sometime change your house, you just change your body.

You might be thinking “No, that means too much”. The incident really has no significance at all. Changing your body happens so regularly in your life, it has no significance. Body changing has no significance. It is regular phenomena;

WHAT IS THAT
MAKES DEATH SO
FRIGHTENING,
FEARFUL?

It is cleaning of all the memory.
There is only one thing in the
death, actually happening which
you are not seeing during the life;
that is you forgetting the whole
memory, cleaning of all memories,
that is the beauty of death, never try
to demystify that because just like
once in a while you need stomach
cleansing, stomach washing, once in
a while you need all the memories
getting cleansed. You get the fresh
slate, you get the fresh life, you get
the fresh energy, you get the fresh
space.

A Small Story:

Once, in USA, a young lady asked the great Indian monk Swami Vivekananda

‘What is life?’ Swami Vivekananda said, ‘Come with me to India. I will teach you.’

She asked,

‘What will you teach me?’ He said, ‘I will teach you how to die.’

The question is about life but the answer is about death! It seems strange! What Swami Vivekananda is saying is that if you know the secret of death, the quality of your life will be different. Your very understanding and attitude towards everything will change. We can actually use our lives to prepare for death. We do not have to wait for the pain of seeing someone’s death or the shock of being faced with a critical illness to force us to look into the meaning of life.

DEATH IS NOT A MERE INCIDENT AT THE END OF YOUR LIFE. IT IS A PROFOUND KNOWING. IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DIE, YOU KNOW HOW TO LIVE. LIVING AND LEAVING ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME THING. YOUR LIFE WILL BE TOTALLY DIFFERENT ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND DEATH.

BREAK-FREE FROM
THE VICIOUS CYCLE
OF BIRTH &
DEATH

The only way to break free from the vicious cycle of birth and death is by becoming enlightened, by entering into death, dropping the fear. As long as you are afraid of death you will never look death in the eye. Unless or until you do that, you will never know how much you are blessed with abundance. Only when you know that you will lose something will you realize the value of that thing. Once when you face death without fear, you will understand the death is not the end of life but it is the climax. Death is just a matter of belief.

When you believe that death is terrifying, it becomes terrifying. We are not able to face death because we are not able to face the ever changing nature of life. We try to hold onto things, to people, to feelings, to situations and that is where the problem starts.

We are terrified to letting go. Look at everything happening in life with the understanding that change is the nature of life, the very reason why life is so colorful and interesting. Death is a deep relaxation it is the ultimate 'letting go'. It is the dropping of the old and starting with the new.

When your being recognizes that
is cannot achieve what it wants to
through this body it decides to
move on . This moving on, this
passing over is called death.
Death is a fresh start – When you
die, all that happens is that you
rejuvenate your body is your
mind. You take a fresh set of
memories, a new place, a
different set of relatives, a new
life

We take up a new birth hoping to fulfill all our incomplete desires. Choices given to you by god to start all over again is death. Facing the fear demystifies death. Every moment you die, the next moment you are born. Death and birth are just cycles. If you die you will be born and if you are born you will die. When you understand this you start living your life, you start enjoying every breath that you take on planet earth. Death is the beginning of a new chapter of life.