Death Is a Celebration - Vol 2

INTRODUCTION

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Death is truly the mystery of all

mysteries. There are only two

things that are certain about

death. One that we will die at

some point in time. The other is

that it is uncertain when or how

we will die. Everything that is

born has to die. That is the nature

of life. Beautifully the verse in the

Upanishad says of that what ever

you think in your last moment,

you become that. '

'Thoughtless awareness' is the
strongest experience you can have
in your life. Even for a single
moment, if you find that
experience it is enough. Naturally
when you leave the body that will
come up. That will act as a light
and you will be able to move into
the consciousness. What exactly
happens at the time of leaving the
body? This question cannot be
answered by a living person as has
not experienced death. It cannot be
answered by a dead person since he
cannot come back to narrate the
experience.

Only an enlightened being, a person who has gone through death conscious and come back a new, can exactly explain what happens during death. We do not just have one body. The physical body is just one of the seven bodies we have. It is the only gross body that can be felt and seen in space-time. However we actually have seven layers or bodies or planes of existence. Since these layers have a subtle existence they cannot we seen or felt by ordinary person Each of the bodies holds a corresponding emotions. Seven bodies are physical body, pranic body, mental body, etheric body causual body, cosmic body and nirvanic body.

Pranic body-holds the desires that arise in life. Mental body-holds all the feelings of guilt experience in life. Etheric body-Holds the experiences of mental pain felt in life.

When the spirit leaves the body it crosses all the seven body layers. The physical body dies, but the remaining six bodies do not totally do.

A patient in a hospital bed with a doctor attending to them

If you are holding a lot of desires in you life all those unfulfilled desire are held in the pranic body. So even the physical body dies the pranic body does not die. Somehow, you manage to move away from the pranic body, and enter next into the mental body. When you enter into the mental body all your guilt raises.

The way in which we want to live is desire, and the way in which we wanted to live but didn't is guilt when the desire, guilt and pain are less intense, you not only have an easy death with less suffering but you also age gracefully. Guilt is about the past and desire is about the future.

Illustration of head with swirling thought patterns

Outline illustration of head with swirling thought patterns

Happiness comes from an external object or reason. If you feel happy when you get to eat your favorite candy, you feel that the candy is the cause of your happiness. But it is not to be. you will hate your favorite candy if you are forced to eat the candy one after other continuously.

Happiness is temporary feeling created
by the mind. Bliss the seven bodies, is
the true reality. It is the causeless,
unending happening inside you of
spontaneous energy, joy and suspicious.