Wake Up!

WHAT IS DEATH?

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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.

Illustration of women carrying vessels and water

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.

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.