Reality is a Dream

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DEATH IS A CELEBRATION SERIES

KAILASA’s NITHYANANDA RAJAVIDYA GURUKUL Presents

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REALITY IS A DREAM

VOLUME 5

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE SPH
NiTHYANANDA
PARAMASHIVAM

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism
(“SPH”) Nithyananda Paramashivam,
is recognized as the 1008th living
manifestation of Paramashiva,
Paramavatar of Paramasiva as per
Sanatana Hindu Dharma (“Hinduism”)
and by His predecessors of enlightened
masters and adepts. The Supreme
Pontiff of Hinduism (“SPH”)
Nithyananda Paramashivam, is reviving
Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya
Mahamandaleshwar
(the head for all spiritual leaders)
of Atal Akhada
(ancient apex body of Hinduism).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

The SPH was coronated as
Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual
Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest
apex monastic order) and the youngest
Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the
233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff)
of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam,
ordained as the 293rd Guru
Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of
Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, ordained
as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of
Dharmamukthi Swargapuram
Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd
Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi The
SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is the
reigning spiritual emperor of 20 ancient
traditional Hindu kingdoms and the
reviver of the most ancient, most
peaceful, still-living and long-lasting
demonstrable system that shows the
possibility of peaceful co-existence
amongst people.

KAILASA

Hinduism is the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people despite fundamental differences in their preferences and realities.

Over the last 50 years, the effects of meditation and its significant impact on stress, crime rates, violence, political decision making and even war in local and global consciousness is well established. Hinduism was once practiced freely in over 56 nations across the continent from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Sri Lanka, all the way to Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia and Indonesia, and in 200 states, 1700 samasthanas (provinces) and 10,000 sampradayas (traditions).

The KAILASA with de facto spiritual embassies operating across over 100 countries and having presence across the globe as the largest spiritual knowledge source on Hinduism is spiritually governed with the life positive, all-inclusive, universal policies sourced from Hinduism revived by The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam.

Having enriched and enreached more than one billion individuals over the past 27 years the KAILASA raises the voice to protect Hindus, defend Hindus and preserve the Hindu narrative for the world.

DEATH IS A CELEBRATION

WHAT IS DEATH?

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.

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.

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

A portrait of an Indian spiritual leader in traditional attire with jewelry, giving a blessing gesture

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.

FOR MOST PEOPLE, LIFE
NEVER GOES BEYOND
THE SWADHiSHTANA
CHAKRA.

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 ARE WE

AFRAiD OF 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.

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.

[Figure: hospital bed]

A computer-generated image of a young male deity-like figure wearing traditional ornaments against a stylized cosmic background

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 bhasmāntagṁ 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.

Body assumes its shape and it can go back to the basic elements. Let the prana, vayu relax, merge into the Cosmic life, anilam; and let the body retire to the basic elements, become ashes. But you remember what all you did to become One with the Cosmos. Oh Cosmos,

The way Sanatana Dharma approaches Death It's very clear, the body has nothing useful. It has no use after death, that is why they say, let it disintegrate – bhasmāntagum śareeram. This verse declares about the need of cremation for Hindus.

WHY CREMATION IN HINDUISM?

It is this verse shows the way why cremation in Hindu tradition, because – vāyur-anilam amṛtam athedam. Let the ‘prana’ merge with the Cosmic Prana. bhasmāntagum śareeram – let the body go back to its basic elements, no use! After you leave the body, it has no use; you don’t need this after that. If you want, you will have one more body. You will take a new body, but this itself is not required.

THE CONTEXT YOU HOLD ABOUT DEATH MATTERS!

From the right context and understanding there is no such thing as death. When there is a wrong context, every moment you will be dying. When there is a right context, even what you think as the so-called death is not death. With a wrong understanding and wrong context just the thought, “Will this roof fall on my head?” is enough to put you into a panic attack. Just a small jolt in the flight is enough. Sometimes it is not even required, just your thought, a jolt in your thinking is enough to put you in the fear of death and make you go through death.

A portrait of a young person with traditional attire and jewelry

The first thing you need to know about death is, the actual happening has no significance at all. Imagination about the happening plays all the chaos, havoc in your life. Please listen; actual happening has no significance at all.

DEATH HAS NO SiGNiFiCANCE AT ALL

This is what you think of as death, that one day you will suddenly disappear, your body will be taken and burnt or cremated or buried disposed. After that you won't exist in the form you are existing now, that is what is, actual incident you call it as death. It has no significance.

HOW TO ACTUALLY

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.

REALITY

IS A DREAM