Death is not final, it is but a passage🔗

Master, I know that death is inevitable and that I shall die one day. But, I would like to die in peace not with pain. I also do not want to see my children die before me. Are these unreasonable and unrealizable expectations?

Three persons died at the same time and their spirits went up to the pearly gates.

The kindly person at the gate said, ‘you have just won a lottery, all three of you. Whatever you wish that the people around your coffins now should think will actually happen. So, tell me.’

The first person said, ‘I wish they would think, this person was such a wonderful person and she would certainly go to heaven.’

The second person said, ‘I wish they would think that this guy did so much in his lifetime and he should be remembered forever.’

The third person said, ‘I wish that they would look at my body and say: hey, this guy is moving, he is alive!’

No death, no religion.

Had it not been for death, there would have been no need for religions. Man would have had to invent another need then; perhaps boredom, which is what endless life would entail.

Human kind has wondered about what lay beyond death since time immemorial. It was the mystery of the unknown rather than any fear that made our ancestors meditate upon death, an event that at the closure of a breath took a person away, an event that made an animate being inanimate.

This made no sense. Birth at least made sense. Over time, just as animals did instinctively, humans too made the connection between the activity of the male and female mating and the creation of new life. Creation always made more sense. You rarely hear about senseless creation.

Yet, people constantly talk about senseless destruction. Birth, men and women could understand. They at least understood the process, though there may be no understanding of the miracle of life, and the mystery of the spirit underlying the mind body.

Man could watch a woman growing the baby in her womb and the baby being born. Arrival of the new life was a time of celebration, just like a harvest is, signifying the arrival of the new crop. There is something inherently wired in the reptilian brain of human kind that welcomed birth and feared death.

According to humans, death is ugly, mysterious and fearsome.

When the human evolved into a social creature with a family structure and along with it possessions, death truly became feared. No one wanted to die. To die was to leave one's loved ones; to die meant losing one's possessions, to die meant losing one's sensual pleasures, this is how it all seemed, since there was an opaque veil that lay between life and death.

Society was about structure and control. Death became a tool in the hands of leaders of societies. They used the mystery of death to control their subjects. It was difficult and impractical to try and convince anybody that they could survive death and live forever; all tangible evidences against this statement were in front of every one's eyes.

So, the next best attempt was to promise them a wonderful vista beyond death. This was, however, conditional. If you abided by the rules laid down by society and religion and did what you were commanded, this wonderful life after death would be yours; if not, you would suffer.

So were born the concepts of hell and heaven, and commandments, which guided one to heaven upon observance and trashed one into hell if violated. Tremendous ingenuity and creativity went into designing heaven and hell, angels and devils, nectar and brimstone.

Untold pleasures awaited those who obeyed, and unimaginable suffering lurked ahead for those who wandered from the straight and narrow path.

Sins were invented. Sex was the single biggest sin. Poor Adam and Eve became the original sinners and they passed their sins on to all humans. Even an infant became a sinner and purification rites were needed to dissolve the sins. Those who confessed to their sins and accepted redemption from appointed leaders would be redeemed, while others would suffer in hell.

Strange, but no enlightened master speaks of eternal hell, they all spoke of bliss, they all lived in bliss. And they also said that bliss was open to all. Knock and you shall enter, said the master; any one who believed in the truth of His statement could achieve it.

When followers spread the words of their masters, they did not have the experience of their masters. They did not have the truth of their master's experience behind them and therefore did not have the power of that truth. To make people believe and follow, they needed support. So, they developed rules and regulations, the Commandments.

The Ten Commandments were the direct experience and truth of Moses; similarly the Vedic scriptures were the truth of enlightened Vedic masters. But when the truth of the Ten Commandments and the Vedas needed to be conveyed to the general public, what resulted were the regulations, what we call smruti in the Vedic system.

In the Vedic system, it is accepted that these regulations need to change with times and that they are not infallible. However, in many cultures, these regulations too became scriptural and violating such regulations became a sin. They became tools to keep people in line.

Our mind is in constant contradiction all the time. We want to be healthy, but we keep thinking of the ailment. We keep saying I want to be free of this headache, this cancer, this ulcer and so on. One part of your mind firmly holds on to the image of the ailment, and however much another part of the mind may seek a cure, the ailment will stay. To be rid of a headache or some other ailment, you need to focus on well-being and health, not on the headache.

So it is with sins. You cannot stop sinning when someone one is dinning into your ears that you are a sinner and these are the sins you should not commit. Your unconscious mind will simply follow the easier path of sinning.

That is why you will never find Buddha, the enlightened one, speaking about sins and hell. He talks about dhamma, righteous living, and the middle path. He does not even say be good all the time. He knows human nature. He knows that it is a near impossible task. He was there truly to transform people. He was practical.

In a spiritual sense, one cannot talk about redemption, since this presupposes that you are a sinner. One should talk about transformation. You are not a sinner. You never were and you never will be. You are cast in the mould of divinity. Understand that.

I keep saying this again and again: you are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience; you are a spiritual being experiencing a human form.

When you focus on your spirituality and your innate God nature, your spiritual centers open up. Your energy centers awaken. You blossom into divinity. That should be the process of transformation; that is the process of transformation.

Can you reform a criminal by constantly telling him that he is no good, that he will always resort to crimes, and give him a list of crimes? This won't work and does not work as we see with our judicial system. We need to provide the criminal mind with alternatives; with transformational alternatives that will move the mind away from the very thought of criminality. So it is with sins. By constantly reminding a person that he is a sinner, you can only make sure that he remains one.

Spiritually this is wrong.

This behavior is not unique to any one religion. When I take my disciples on a pilgrimage to the holy spots in the Himalayan Mountains, we visit a number of temples. All these temples have official priests who are the only people authorized to conduct the ritual prayers. But, because of my saffron robes, they let me into the sanctum and I do the offering myself.

I tell my disciples that it is enough if they accompany me and join me in the prayers. Some of them won’t listen. Their parents and well wishers back home would have told them that their trip would not be effective unless they get the rituals done by the temple priests. So, they are not satisfied with their master’s prayers, they need the priest to endorse!

Then I see them sitting in a corner in front of the panda, the temple priest, who for every prayer he utters demands money. Suddenly, he will tell them that to propitiate the spirit of their ancestors, they must donate a cow. These priests are better psychologists than any of your qualified doctors. They can see through you in a minute and manipulate you; unfortunately this is the only way they can survive. This, however, is not the Vedic ideology or philosophy.

In Sanatana Dharma – the Vedic culture that is now called Hinduism – there was no emphasis on sins and redemption. The focus of the great masters who exemplified this culture and philosophy was to turn inward and understand who we are. It was a gentle and peaceful process that was internal.

Not only did Sanatana Dharma not classify us all as sinners, but it also promised us a great future to look forward to. Depending on the way you live your life you will be reborn was the scriptural pronouncement. Two important issues are to be understood here.

First, it is that you will be reborn. Second, you will be reborn based on how you have lived your life.

In fact, Krishna says with His stamp of authority in the Bhagavad Gita that your last desire in this life is what determines your next life. However, the Judaic religions, whatever may have been the convictions of the founding masters, do not believe in rebirth now.

Recently, I saw in Los Angeles some beautiful locations situated on hill tops overlooking the ocean with new constructions coming up. I was told that these were not for people to live in but for their dead bodies. They were cemeteries overlooking the ocean. Depending on the view was the price! These cemetery locations or crypts where the coffins will be placed were all sold out before construction. I was told that rich people booked them so that after death, their dead bodies could enjoy the serene view. I was also told that some of these locations had been bought for pet cats and dogs to be buried.

A religion that does not have the option of a rebirth forces the follower into believing that in this life you have to do all you have to. Your entire mindset is conditioned to achieve no matter what. All your actions will be materially driven, possession driven and pleasure driven. You will be forever making targets and setting goals. More you achieve more you will drive yourself to achieve more.

You cannot stop. You are too wound up to stop and enjoy life.

Such conditioning does produce results in a material sense. Fear and greed do drive you, no doubt about that, but they also drive you into suffering. The end result is depression and stress-related ailments that destroy your being. Even that one life you have either ends fast or gets spent in mental turmoil. You have all the possessions you craved for, not knowing why, but retained none that matter, especially in relationships.

Yes, great scientific advances have been possible as a result of this desperation of limited life time. When you are pressurized by the grim knowledge of one life time and simultaneous ignorance of where you are headed next, all you can do is focus externally. All that you are able to perceive and absorb are through your senses.

Your senses do not tell you the truth, however much you wish to believe them.

First of all, your conscious brain receives less than 5% of what your senses perceive. Second, your unconscious brain drives 90% of your actions. As a result, you are driven not from awareness or even logic much as you would like to believe, but by the dark spaces of your unconscious and instinctive brain.

Look around you and see how elderly people live in Western countries, especially the United States. See how they live in relatively poorer countries like India. Here in the United States, children leave home at 18 at the very latest and there is limited or no contact between parents and children. As people get older and they cannot manage on their own, they need to find old people's homes for them to be taken care of. Children may visit them, with appointment, once in a while.

These people wait for death, while at the same time fearing it.

It was not like this in India even a generation ago, although things are changing there too. The joint family system ensured that old and young of many generations lived together. It was holistic not fragmented like the present day nuclear family system. There is nothing nuclear about these families except disaster! People criticize the joint family system on mainly one account, that they lack privacy.

Just think deeply about where privacy and independence have taken you.

Is the old people's home an alternative to the joint family system? Is this the right way to wait for death, in loneliness, boredom and fear? Won't what we do to our elder generation await us in our old age?

The concern for our selfish comfort has overtaken our cultures so strongly that we now mask this selfishness in the name of privacy and individual rights. There is no birth right. You had no right to your birth. You were just born, that is all. No one owes anybody in this life, let alone the universe.

In the name of privacy, we have caged ourselves. We have built defensive barriers all around and still talk about freedom. What freedom can one have within walls that one has erected around one self? It is only when we realize that our true nature encompasses everyone around us and together we all form this universe that we can truly be free. It is the fear of losing our identity that makes us build these walls. Ultimately this is the fear of death.

The hope of rebirth, the understanding of the truth of rebirth, takes away a huge burden from our shoulders. It takes away this fear of losing one's identity. The burden of fear and insecurity arising out of the lack of understanding of what awaits us after death, or the fear that as a sinner our fate is only hell, gets lifted.

One of the most frequent questions asked of me is about death – what happens at death, what happens after death? Can we predict death? and so on.

Krishna explains so beautifully in the Bhagavad Gita that your spirit changes bodies just the same way as you change your clothes. That is all. The spirit moves from one body which no longer functions into another. From matter, energy moves out, leaving behind inert matter. It then enters another matter and enlivens it. That is all that happens at death. One body, one person, one identity dies and another is born, it is that simple.

Krishna says that the spirit is immortal; it does not get destroyed. He says that fire cannot burn it, wind cannot dry it, sword cannot cleave it, water cannot wet it, it is pure, untouched and unchangeable. Again and again He makes this point and affirms that the spirit within you lives on even though the body perishes. Spirit is undying energy.

Visualize a white sheet of paper on which you have drawn circles with a colored pen. The circles are your body. Outside the body is the universal energy, what we call Brahman. Inside the body is also a white space, the same as the white space you see outside. It is the same energy as outside. This is the atman, the holographic part inside you of that universal energy.

When you die, the perimeter of the circle gets wiped out; the body disappears. The energy inside, atman, merges with the universal energy outside, Brahman, once the circle dissolves.

This is all that happens. This is what should happen.

There is also something else that happens. The white space inside does not remain white. It gets tinted and it gets tainted with our conditioning, with our samskara; these are the cumulative experiences that we have in our lifetime, all the memories, all the conditioning that takes place in that lifetime. Some circles get tinted with anger, some with greed, some with lust, some with fear and so on.

So, when the perimeter dissolves as the body perishes at death, the tinted space inside does not and cannot fully merge with the white space outside, because it is no longer pure white. This tint is what Krishna says is our last desire, which is the cumulative mindset based on all our lifetime experiences. This is termed as vasana.

So, this body with tinted energy waits for another envelope, another circle with a capacity to hold that same conditioning. The spirit waits for another body which will allow its vasana, the mindset; another body in an environment of parents and culture that will foster this mindset, vasana.

The new body is born with this vasana and this mindset becomes its opening current account balance, which is called its prarabda karma. The new body is the soil that will allow the spirit's vasana, which is its prarabda karma now to take root and grow.

This is what Krishna means when He says that your next birth will be based on your last desire. The last desire is the accumulation of all your individual desires through life and the collective vasana.

This vasana, this tint, determines where and how you are born again.

You take birth in a country, in a culture, in a family and in an environment that reflects the collective desires, the collective unfulfilled desires of your past birth and allows them the chance to be fulfilled. You determine, you choose where you are going to be reborn and to whom.

This is what we call your prarabda karma. This is why you are born in a rich or poor family, in the United States or India, as man or a woman and whatever else are the factors that would work toward the fulfillment. You are born with a promise that your desires will be fulfilled. This is why Mahavira, the founder of the Jain religion says that when you are born in this planet, all your needs have been anticipated and provided for.

You will then ask, 'I do not know what my prarabda karma is. No one told me! I have no memory of why I am here. This is not my fault. What can I do?'

This is the original sin. Your ignorance, your loss of memory of who you are, the ignorance of your divine origin and what unfulfilled desires you are bringing into this world so that they can be fulfilled and you can be dissolved of all your samskara, is the original sin.

Over time, with degeneration of our consciousness, we have lost the ability to remember the reason why we were born and we have lost the ability to remember our prarabda karma. But it is possible to recover this information.

In our second level program LBP 2, earlier called Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP), this is what we teach you. We help you recover your prarabda karma, your account balance at birth. We help you finally focus on what you are here for, what is the meaning of your life.

Simultaneously, we help you unload and dissolve your additional samskara, the agamya karma, additional credits and debits to your account in this birth. These are the additional desires and experiences that you have further accumulated in this life. This program helps dissolve all these unfulfilled desires and acquired conditioning, so that you can focus on what your real meaning in life is.

When we arrive upon this planet Earth, we come with the imprint of our basic needs, the prarabda karma. That is all that we need to fulfill, to cleanse our vasanas and end the cycle of life and death. We carry the energy within us to fulfill these vasanas.

However, through conditioning, we start accumulating the needs of other people which are in no way related to us. We start building wants, in addition to our needs. Needs can be fulfilled and will be fulfilled. That is the promise of the universe as Mahavira says. But our wants can never be fulfilled.

Ramana Maharishi says, ‘this universe can fulfill the needs of everyone who lives here; but it cannot fulfill the wants of even one individual’.

Dissolution of our samskara, our conditioned and embedded memories that lead to unfulfilled desires, liberates us. It releases us of our suffering.

People often tell me that they are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of dying painfully. Their main request to me is about how I can help them toward a painless departure. It will be so wonderful to die peacefully in sleep, they will say; they express to be guided into this mode of death.

There are two issues involved here. You do not know how you will die and when you will die. So, you are imagining an event that has no basis and wondering how to change that. Second, you have an inadequate understanding about death. Both these issues are addressed in our courses; in fact even in our first-level program called LBP 1 or Ananda Spurana Program (ASP), we teach you how to face death and overcome fear.

The fear of death, whether painless or painful, has been established as the single most common fear amongst all races. No one wants to die. They are always quartered and dragged against their will. But death is inevitable.

Death is not final; it is a passage.

It is a separation of your mind–body system from your spirit, and it can be painless once you understand that however much pain your body may undergo, you need not suffer.

I have said this many times. When you feel pain, focus on the pain. We are taught by many to distract ourselves from pain. That will never work. Once the distraction ends, the pain returns. Instead, focus on the pain, the region, the spot where the pain is, without using the word pain. Just watch and witness. The pain may seem to become more intense for a while but it will gradually start disappearing. Pain is a sign that your body needs attention, whatever the cause of it is. When you focus on that body part and shower attention, the concept of pain disappears. And you will find that you do not suffer as a result.

In the meditations that we take you through in LBP 1 and LBP 2 programs, we help you dissolve your samskara and experience the mind–body separation from the spirit. We make you rehearse your death, in controlled conditions as it were, so that at your deepest level you are rid of that primal fear of death. Understanding that death is not final and that it is a temporary separation of your spirit from one mind–body system as it moves from matter form into energy takes away the dark mystery of death.

Dissolution of your samskara liberates you from the pain that you will otherwise experience when your spirit leaves the mind body, when the mind–body system tries to hold back and experience all the desires, pains, joy and guilt that it had experienced in that life time. It has been said that death can be as painful as a thousand scorpions stinging at the same time. It is true. But with understanding, you need not suffer.

The idea of this LBP 2 course came to me when I had watched people suffer while dying. In my days of wandering, before Self-realization, I had sat beside a dying man. I could feel the terrible pain that the body mind spirit system was undergoing, as the spirit was departing from his mind–body system. It was unbearable for me to even witness this.

Later, after my Self-realization, I was in a similar situation of being beside a dying man. This time, I braced myself for what was to come. To my surprise, the spirit departed with no pain at all. I asked the relatives of the dead man whether he was very spiritual; they said no, not at all. It occurred to me suddenly that it was my presence – the presence of an enlightened being – that helped the spirit depart painlessly! Just the presence was sufficient to dissolve that person’s samskara and make his journey painless.

Based on this understanding, I developed the LBP 2 course and many thousands have benefited from the knowledge of how they can lead their lives better through the understanding of the death process.

Unless you learn how to die, you can never understand how to live.

In a sense, now, you are dying every second just thinking of the impending death.

Biologists will tell you that out of many trillions of cells within you, billions die every day and millions die every second. Cells die and new cells get created. Even at the moment before you die, even at old age, this process continues. Once every 6 months or so, you have a new kidney; once every two years, you are a new model. You can compete with car makers! Every single part of your mind–body system has new cells within 2 years.

You are being renewed constantly. You are being rejuvenated every moment.

Yet, your diseases continues. Why? While every living part in you is renewed, what is that which allows the memory, the intangible memory of your diseases to continue? This is the result of your samskaras, the engraved and embedded memories. The same way that the vasana, your mindset, continues with your spirit even after death, your samskaras pursue your regenerated cells. But you can dissolve them, you can eliminate them and rid yourself of the so-called incurable diseases.

You cannot do that by the Western medical method of looking at each body part separately and trying to cure the ailment by attacking the symptoms and effects of the ailment. The mind–body system is not put together as a mechanical toy by assembling parts together. Cells are not produced that way.

From your high school biology, you know that the first cell that is formed by the union of sperm and egg develops through mitosis; it develops holistically. To cure diseases, we need to look at the mind–body system holistically. That is what the Hindu medical system of Ayurveda, knowledge of life, does. The Ayurveda physician makes as much effort to understand your mental condition as he does your physical condition before he attempts a cure. If you have a headache, he does not attack your head; the cause may be elsewhere in the body or it may not even be located in the physical body. It may be in another energy layer. Western medicine and its practitioners need to understand this so that they can serve patients more effectively.

Once this understanding happens, people will become focused on wellness instead of just curing diseases.

When we understand that the process of death and regeneration is something that happens within us naturally, every living second, a new understanding can dawn on us in our approach to death. Then, death is no longer our enemy.

Death is a friend. Death is not destruction; it is merely regeneration.

In the Hindu theology, Shiva is considered the God of destruction. The word Shiva in Sanskrit denotes auspiciousness, causeless auspiciousness. How inappropriate, you may think. Not at all. Death is not destruction as you know it. Shiva’s destruction is what gives rise to continuous creation! Without destruction, there can never be creation.

It is the cycle of Nature: death and birth; one is not possible without the other. This is the cycle of samsara, creation and destruction. Shiva is not the God of destruction, He is the God responsible for rejuvenation; He is the rejuvenator, not the destroyer. The rejuvenation is random and auspicious, it is not planned.

That is why there is no answer possible when people ask why so many people have perished in this disaster and that accident and so on, or why a young innocent child should die when so many older not so innocent people are still flourishing.

There are answers, but none that your logic can understand. The answers to these questions are available in another frequency.

Let us say you drive over an anthill and kill thousands of ants. It is a humongous disaster to the ants, but you don’t even notice it! Even if you did, what will you do? You will drive on. That is what Nature does when thousands of people die; it just moves on. It does not stop to weep. Even as destruction takes place in one place, there is creation happening elsewhere. For every black hole, there is a big bang.

Our logic and our science have no answers yet. But if we look inward, we can find answers.

I have talked about this before. In one of my earlier visits to the United States, I was requested to heal an autistic child, perhaps about 6 years old. His parents were from India but not Tamilians. They did not speak the language. When I laid my hand on this child, he said to me in crude Tamil to take my hands off. Get away from me, he said.

I then started a dialogue with his being and asked why. His spirit told me that it purposely chose this autistic state for it did not want any responsibility in life. ‘That is fine’, I said, ‘but you are making these good people unhappy. Don’t you see?’ The spirit said, ‘That is why I chose such compassionate people as my parents; some one else may have rejected me.’

I left that spirit and child alone.

People ask why any one would want to be born a beggar or die young or suffer from painful incurable diseases. There are good reasons. A wealthy person who has suffered as a result of his wealth may have developed the mindset to renounce wealth and this vasana results in his birth as a poor man or a beggar. There may be others whose carried over samskara may limit life time.

It is hypocritical to mourn death. All mourning of death is selfish. Why not accept that the spirit has escaped the bondage of the body and that it has journeyed to where it belongs?

When death happens, you move into a different frequency. Matter becomes energy. That energy becomes matter again when the spirit re-enters the body. One of the energy layers that the spirit passes through at death is the causal layer or karana sarira. Till this point, that is till the fifth layer, the spirit has the possibility to return to the body. People who stay in coma, stay in the causal layer, which is a space of intense darkness.

This space corresponds to the darkness of the birth canal as the infant moves out of the mother’s womb into life. This is the point at which the spirit enters the body. Till then it is just a body mind that is nourished by the mother’s life.

Passage through this dark space can be one of great fear. This is the fear we seek to dissolve in the LBP 2 (NSP) meditation.

What is fear? Fear is the feeling of losing something that you have not yet achieved but feel that you can achieve. Fear cannot happen if you do not see a possibility. You do not fear that you will not become Bill Gates, because you totally cast aside that possibility if you are reasonably intelligent. But, you are afraid that you may not measure up to your brother, friend or neighbor because you see the possibility there.

You have no fear when you are fully confident of achieving any possibility without a problem. Fear happens only when you perceive a possibility and do not feel confident of achieving or facing up to that possibility. When you drop all possibilities, you have no fears. Up to the point of death, only the prospect of death can make you afraid; not death itself.

When you go beyond boundaries, you will have no fears. If you really understand this, then you will have no fear of either life or death.

When you understand that truly nothing is possible by you, then too all fears dissolve, because then everything is in the hands of the Supreme. All great masters and all scriptures have reiterated this truth.

The Hindu scriptures say that not even a blade of grass can move without divine sanction. This is a truth. This is not a logical fact. Anyone can disprove this as a fact. They can say, ‘I can move, I can move others’. But when you delve deep into yourself, you understand that everything happens from beyond you. When you surrender that power beyond you, then you lose all fears; in fact you lose all boundaries and you achieve all that you wish.

You can lose all fears through surrender; this is the path of devotion. You say to the Supreme that all that happens is because of you, and if you cannot grant me what I wish, nothing else can help. This is bhakti marga, devotional path.

Or, you can move beyond your boundaries in absolute confidence, with the deep understanding that you are no different from the Supreme. This is the path of knowledge, gnana marga. Either way, you can lose your fears and be liberated.

Otherwise, you will constantly be suppressing your fears, as you do not wish others to see your fears. You put on a brave front or become arrogant and aggressive. You will find that all authoritative persons, who make other people’s life miserable by expecting every one else to obey them without question, are deeply troubled and insecure persons. They cannot face their fears and so they suppress them into insecurity.

When you let go the fear of death, you let go all your fears. No ghost will haunt you again. When you understand death and what happens at death, you really understand life and learn to accept life without struggling and suffering. You tune into bliss.

This meditation is a guided meditation for 30 minutes.

When done regularly, it facilitates the cosmic energy that is present everywhere to empower and energize your body and mind. It also opens and energizes the Swadhishtana chakra or spleen energy center.

You may have the words of the guided meditation taped for the appropriate period and play it back.

Sit comfortably on the floor. Those who cannot sit on the floor, may sit on a chair. The head, neck and spine should all be in a straight line.

(Play soft music if you wish to.) Close your eyes. Breathe deeply.

Imagine that you are walking into a dense forest. You are walking into the densest part of the forest. You enter a deep, dark cave. You cannot see anything with your eyes. You sit down in the cave. You cannot see your own body. Except for your own feeling of being there, you have no other identification.

Exhale deeply. Focus only on your deep exhalation (1 minute).

How much ever you try, you are not able to see. There is nothing to hear, smell or taste. In this deep darkness your senses do not function (1 minute).

You are born from darkness that was in your mother's womb and you dissolve into the same loving, compassionate darkness (1 minute).

Breathe in deeply the utter darkness that surrounds you everywhere. Breathe in deeply the darkness that has made your identity disappear.

Slowly, very slowly, experience your body merging with the darkness. You have no sense perception, no thoughts, no mind. It is as if your mind and body have completely merged into the darkness (5 minutes).

Slowly, very slowly, experience your body becoming the darkness. Stay in the darkness. Become one with the darkness (5 minutes).

With your whole body, breathe IN the darkness. With every cell of your body, breathe IN the darkness deeply (15 minutes).

Begin to feel yourself. Start to feel your whole body with all your senses. Move your body very slowly in the sitting position. Get up and move out of the cave. You are coming out of the dense forest.

You have returned to your meditation space. Slowly open your eyes (2 minutes).

To summarize

1. Practice the meditation for removing fear.

2. Intend that you will be fearless in all that you do.

3. Visualize this state of intent as real. Visualize total courage in every single action. Visualize that you are wealthy, healthy and happy with joyful relationships. 4. Let go.

5. Offer your gratitude to the universe for what you are NOW and for what you are continuing to receive.

May you be fearless and be in nithyananda, eternal bliss!