WHY ARE WE AFRAID OF DEATH?🔗

The answer to Life

Paramahamsa performs a cremation at Mukti Dham in the Bangalorei ashram. One can experience Death as a beautiful phenomenon while witnessing this soul stirring event in the ashram from time to time. Death becomes a divine celebration.

What is death? We never give ourselves time to ponder over death. We want to forget everything about death. That's why we stay far from graveyards which are usually out of our way. 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, that is the fear of death, permeates our life. The idea and fear of death decides our entire life structure.

Western religions believe in only one birth and one death - one life. That is why the western culture is so materialistic. Whatever you have to enjoy, you need to enjoy now. The western world is so intense, so time conscious. Value of time arises from this concept of only one life. Outer science was born in the West as the by product of the idea of only one life.

All Eastern religions say there is life after life; that there is no need to hurry, and to look deeply into the cycle of birth and death. Inner Science was born out of this concept.

Death is not a simple incident; not just something physical. It is something far more. It guides your whole life psychologically. Your entire life will be transformed if you experience consciously. You will become fully awakened, enlightened. It will be an orgasm of Existence. You reach your peak, not your end, at the time of death. Why are we then so afraid of death? Why do we feel frightened of this word?

One reason is, we have not lived completely. If we had, we would not be afraid. One who has lived fully will have deep satisfaction, fulfillment. We just carry on, where our parents left off, carry our desires and their desires, and others' desires through our lives. We have lived others' lives. So we do not have satisfaction. I have seen great Masters die. They die in such peace.

Paramahamsa From Death to Life

In another form

Fear of death is just the fear of discontinuity. We are afraid of what might happen next. If we think about continuity no one really dies; all lives continue to exist. Once in six months, your body is completely changed; not one cell remains the same. When you are 40, you are not what you were when you were 10 or when you were 20 or when you were 30. But you do not feel that you died, though you are completely different; you are different physically, mentally, emotionally, materially. If you are intelligent, even a bit, understand that everything in Existence continues in one form or another. Leaves become manure and become trees again. Understand this and you will lose this fear. Nothing dies, nothing discontinues; everything continues in a manner that nature dictates. Your idea about death will change if you understand this: that you are going to continue, perhaps in a different form, in a different way. Once you understand this, the Swadhishtana - energy center locked due to fear - blossoms. When you get the courage to live your life as you want, with complete insecurity, you will transcend your fear. You will look into your fear deeply and you will be transformed; you will transcend death; death cannot touch you.

Paramahamsa From Death to Life

Still a mystery to more than some

A question was put to Yudhishtra, the Pandava Prince, 5000 years ago. He was the hero of the Indian epic Mahabharata - greatest epic written on planet Earth. The question was put to him by a Yaksha - a demi God. Yaksha asked: what is the most mysterious thing on planet Earth?

Yudhishtra replied: every day so many lives are going to Yama's abode, the house of the Lord of Death, but the people who are staying here, think they are going to live for ever. They think they will never die. They always think that it is someone else who will die, never them! That is the most mysterious thing on this planet. Death is the mystery of all mysteries.