Vinaire's Blog
… Scientology OT Levels → Subject Clearing OT III
… Course on The Bhagavad Gita → THE BHAGAVAD GITA: Chapter 9
.
Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story
“Right now, most people are not even able to handle what is happening in this life, so why do they want to dig into their previous lives? They don’t know how to handle the thoughts, emotions and relationships of this life. How will they handle the thoughts, emotions and relationships of many lives?” ~ Sadhguru
After conception, there is just a bundle of cells. After forty to forty-eight days, the other life occupies the womb and this bundle of cells becomes a being. Maybe not yet a full person, but in many ways a person. If life has not entered the womb after forty-eight days of conception, then that is the sign of a phenomenal being arriving. Somewhere between eighty-four to ninety days, the engagement with the body for this life truly begins. There are millions of wombs and millions of beings looking for a body. They will settle down according to their attributes and tendencies. The chakras also start developing gradually in the womb. The Sahasrara Chakra generally is not developed for most at the time of birth. That slowly evolves thereafter.
Life is just one. Numbers are only in your mind. The fundamental life force is not in terms of numbers. What we are referring to as the being is beyond the physical. Once there is no physical, there is no boundary. For that which has no boundary, there is no one or two or ten or million. So that is not the way to think at all. You must understand that by cloning, all that you are doing is just producing a human body. If it is hospitable enough, if all the ingredients are there, life will occupy it. It does not matter how you produced it.
Apparently, 70–80 per cent of the children below three to six months of age remember their past life because the memory screens between lifetimes are not set up yet. During this time, the memories of many lifetimes are playing within them in so many ways. Slowly, it consolidates. It is not necessary that a person be born the same gender as in their previous life. What gender or form you take is determined by the type of longing that you create. This is determined by your tendencies.
Whatever you call ‘past life’ is just unconscious layers of the mind in terms of memory. If you bring yourself to heightened levels of awareness, these unconscious layers of the mind, which are ruling you from within, could be broken down, could be dissolved. So if you go through a process where, with heightened levels of awareness, you bring unconscious layers of the mind into conscious states—not in terms of memory but in terms of energy and experience—you can work these things out and leave yourself completely free in a big way within yourself. In that context, it is relevant, but remembering something memory-wise is not of any consequence. It will only complicate and mess up your life.
Life can be very different existentially from what the society perceives. It is very much possible that a man who tortured everyone else lived well within himself, and a man who tried to do good to everyone tortured himself. How a person is within himself existentially is what counts. People have certain urges and desires. It is desire that becomes the karma. If a particular quality is very dominant in you, your karma will seek whatever kind of body and physical situation is best for you to fulfill that quality. Nature is not thinking in terms of punishment or reward. Depending on your tendencies, whatever is unfulfilled within you, you get the kind of body that is best suited to fulfill those tendencies. The moment you realize that you are the source of everything that is happening here, you cannot build any more karma. Now, you have to handle only what is stored up. There are no unfulfilled tendencies. There is only freedom.
If the only way you can hold on to someone is by believing that you have been stuck together for many lifetimes, it is a horrible way to live. If you have been together for three lifetimes, maybe it is time to part! What happened yesterday is of no consequence, but now you are trying to create a consequence for what might have happened. This memory is crippling you. It is not allowing you to use your mind as an instrument of penetration, as an instrument to open up dimensions of life. If that is the only way you can relate to your husband or wife, what a pathetic way to relate to people! You should find value in the human being who is sitting in front of you for what he or she is now, not for what they were somewhere. What you are right now, what you have made out of your life right now is the most significant thing.
Whatever kind of relationship you form, whether it is emotional, psychological, social, financial or physical, fundamentally, it is concerned with the body. When the body drops, the relationship just evaporates. Only if a relationship transcends the physical limitations, then there is a possibility of this relationship extending beyond the limitations of the physical body. Generally, it is only the Master–disciple relationship which gets carried for lifetimes. This relationship is always energy-based. It is not emotion-based, it is not mind-based, nor is it body-based. It continues until the energy reaches dissolution. For the energy, there is no rebirth. Some Karmic relationships are energy-based too. In Nature, wherever there is emptiness, everything rushes there. This is so with karma also. When someone’s karmic bag is empty, all those other bags of karma which have been one way or the other connected to that for so many lifetimes tend to move towards that direction, knowingly or unknowingly. But unless there is some spiritual significance to these things, we do not pay attention to the past connections.
When one crosses 1008 full moons of time, which amounts to nearly eighty-two years of age, something wonderful starts happening within a person. The karmic grip on their life loosens up and they suddenly become very sweet. This process reaches a substantial level of maturity when one crosses eighty-four years of age, which is essentially the consequence of obliterating the illusion of life and death. Our very birth is rooted in the menstrual cycles of our mother, and that cycle is linked to the lunar cycles. With such concurrence we cannot aspire for further physical evolution. Attempts follow to evolve in ways other than physical. If we utilize the full moon and new moon situations with some understanding, we need not be swimming against the current. When the body has seen 1008 full moons, the energy body is not able to retain that structure very clearly. Now, it is very easy to liberate them.
For most people, their moment of Enlightenment and their moment of leaving the body is the same. An Enlightened being has certain qualities, which cannot be taken away. But when he is born, he is born like anyone. The qualities are still there, inherent in him. It will wait for a certain time and space where it can find expression. Depending on what type of work he intends to take up, accordingly, he will develop. So this process of when it should happen is Nature’s intelligence. Whatever happens naturally is always right, there is no question about it. Nature does not decide things with thoughts and emotion. It just decides things as per your tendencies. With thought, you can always make a mistake as it functions with very limited data. But Nature operates out of tendencies. So for an Enlightened being who is reborn, it depends on what type of work that person has as an objective for his life. Accordingly, at the right time, things will happen. Enlightenment is about going beyond individuality and becoming available to Universality.
One group of people who give a lot of importance to the reincarnation of Masters is the Tibetans. Tibetan lamas are basically tantriks who converted to Buddhism. Some people in that culture were definitely capable of consciously determining their reincarnation, and some Masters chose to come back over and over again. Over time, this prediction of reincarnation and identifying the reincarnation all became a compulsive culture.
There are any number of my lifetimes which are there in my memory but I pay attention only to that which has been spiritually significant in some way. The rest of it is of no consequence. I consider only my last four lifetimes significant. NOTE: Sadhguru relates these four lifetimes where his purpose became to consecrate a Dhyanalinga.
DHYANALINGA
I am not coming back for sure, because my expiry date is long over. From the account books of humanity, I am gone a long time ago. This gives me much freedom, though. But stretching it one more time is not a proper thing to do. Even this time it happened only because I got tangled up with the project of the consecration of the Dhyanalinga. Otherwise, this one would not be. Some people who are a little more perceptive clearly see that I don’t even exist.
.
.
Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story
“In a way, everyone is a ghost. Whether you are a ghost with the body or without a body is the only question.” ~ Sadhguru
Life extends beyond the body as well. That is why you have what are generally known as ghosts. All beings, embodied or disembodied, are playing out their lives only as per their karmic structures.
GHOST
A ghost is a being who has left his body, usually, in an unnatural way; but his tendencies still persist due to unfinished Prarabdha Karma. If his tendency, when alive, was pinching people; he will still want to pinch even after his body is gone. But he can no longer have conscious intention because the intellect is gone. Such a being will have a denser presence if his tendencies are very strong. You can feel those tendencies. If you happen to see ghosts it is your psychological response to those tendencies. It has nothing to do with that being. Existence in the form of a ghost is considered undesirable because it can unnecessarily extend for a long time. If he were in a physical body, maybe his Prarabdha Karma would have lasted for another twenty years. Now that there is no physical body; so the lifespan may last for 200 or 2000 years.
CELESTIAL BEING
A celestial being is also a disembodies being but he is not a ghost. He is aware because he lived and died in a certain sense of awareness. He has refused to take another body. He is looking for ways of dissolution.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO GHOSTS
You are basically responding to tendencies that are external to you. These tendencies are not out to harm you. They are simply operating compulsively according to some genetic memory. They don’t have a discriminatory intellect to choose. They may be intense, mild or meek. They may just hang around certain places per their memory. They are everywhere in some way. This is the reason why processes exist to clear out such influences.
NAGA DOSHA
Besides humans, only cobras and cows are capable of having a subtle body. Naga Dosha happens when a disembodied cobra has touched you somehow. Your skin breaks into rashes and begins to peel away in scales. It looks like psoriasis but is not exactly psoriasis. It can also create a very strange sense of stillness and movement. It can cause people to have serious hearing impediments. People are known to recover from it totally by doing Naga Pooja.
NOTE: It appears to me that, just like the water cycle, the being, upon death, evaporates into the thought space (universal mind). There it may collect other vibrations similar to it and, thus, become more condensed. It may then precipitate into a new body that is forming in a pregnant woman, especially when it resonates with its vibrations.
If you are vulnerable, these ghosts (external tendencies) can “possess” you, and thus influence your actions. But, if you have the quality of meditativeness, you cannot be possessed. A person who is easily frightened, can, however, be terrorized; and it can lead to situations that are fatal. But, if you have raised yourself to that level of awareness where you can feel these beings, you will have no problem with them.
These disembodied beings exist only in the level of awareness in which they left. They are in a stagnant state that has a certain lifespan. They can be trapped and used for selfish purposes; but it is a very negative karma to do so, because these beings are, in a way, very helpless creatures. Disembodied beings can be helped and dissolved. To do so we just break their karma. For a disembodied being, the karma is in the energy body. This karmic structureis held by certain pins or chakras. So all we do is pull those pins and the karmic body just collapses. But you have to know what you are doing.
Dissolving people in their disembodied state is a much easier thing to do, if the necessary conditions are in place. This section provides Sadhguru’s experience with dissolving a couple of disembodied beings.
There are yogis who are nirmanakayas. Nirman means ‘to create’, kaya means ‘a body’. It is very rare that this would happen, but there have been some beings who have done that. These yogis are of the highest calibre and are able to materialize their body at will. But the phenomenon has been too exaggerated and presented in many distorted ways.
An ancient idea has been to create an ideal being who can transform the whole world in one shot. Many yogis have put their inputs into this being. This being is expected to mature and find a body in the world about now; and he will be the ultimate teacher in the Creation.
There are beings who are highly evolved and are reluctant to take on a new body. They are looking for a suitable vehicle through which they can fulfill the final phase of their lives. If you have done sufficient work and preparation and are absolutely willing, they can be downloaded into your body. It is a different level of sadhana altogether. The existing being dissolves completely and the downloaded being takes over the body. It is a very complex operation.
After having been here for this long, if we could not produce sufficient beings here of such a level of evolution, then we have to import them from somewhere. I hope such a need will not come to us, for we are doing good work.
.
Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story
“I want you to understand that your grief is not because someone has died. One life going away does not mean anything to you. Thousands of people in the world die in a day. But it does not leave a vacuum in you. You are still partying. The problem is, this particular life going away leaves a hole in your life.” ~ Sadhguru
You grieve because you have suffered a loss; but this also brings to your attention the incompleteness of you. You realize how incomplete you are with this person now gone. Of course, there is immense love for the departed one; but you must also examine why it is that you feel incomplete. It could mean that you have not experienced the whole life the way it is.
Your connection with people is very physical. You may have emotions attached to it, but your deepest connection is physical. Once someone leaves their body, whether you like it or not, they have nothing to do with you any more. Only when you are embodied, you have a mother, you have a father, you have a brother, you have a sister. After that, there is no such thing.
When someone is dead it is over. You are unwilling to come to terms with it, so grief sets in. It is time to accept it the way it is. When death happens, it is time to look back and cherish what has been, and it is time to accept it and look at what you can do with the life that is here.
As long as you are alive, it is important that you see how to contribute to the living because other than doing a few rituals within the stipulated time, there is nothing that you can do about the dead. Moreover, if you believe that the person you are grieving for has enriched your life, show that enrichment in how you live.
One of the tools you could use to overcome grief is to perform Kalabhairava Karma. It is not a ritual to handle your grief, but because of what it does, it can handle grief also.
It is possible that there is a certain residual element of your grandmother that is left behind in her clothes after she dies. And they may cause some things. But there is no need to play into it. All these things were taken care of in India by various customs that were built incorporated into the culture. People accepted these things as a normal happening. When a person died, all the clothes that were closely in touch with that person’s body were burned. They were never kept. The clothes that the person occasionally wore were given only to a blood relative, no one else. And even in such an instance, the clothes were not worn for the first year.
The only thing that you do when someone dies is you cherish the beautiful moments that you had with them—that is all, otherwise, forget about them. Don’t try to work your guilt and your problems through the dead. It can become very complicated.
This happens with some birds, it also happens with animals and human beings: if they were a couple or were very close, when one of them dies, within three to six months, the other will also die. One life following another in death is not necessarily because of loss of companionship or emotional debacle. Two lives that lived in tandem, that were tied together energetically, tend to dismantle in response. This does not happen at the level of thought; it is deeper than that.
If a violent or unnatural death happens, then the being hangs around and this in turn impacts the place. Now, in case of wars, where a lot of people are killed violently, there are negative consequences only when they were in extreme fear or terrorized. When people die of fear on a large scale, very morbid manifestations may happen. The next few generations after that would have this gore of death in their samskara. So they could never have really known the joy of bonding with people, nor the simple joy of living. They would have slogged, they would have built and they would have done things. Here and there, they would have laughed, they would have lived, they would know everything, but there would have been no real sense of joy. This can be undone by creating many consecrated spaces that are strategically located. It requires creating awareness about the truth.
In India, there is a peculiar tradition of mourning that depends on being genealogically related to the dead person in a particular way. Such people are supposed to avoid going to temples or participating in social events or celebrations for forty days. This is because, in ancient India, they followed the system of kula, which is like a clan, but with a much more genetic basis to it.
Building memorials for people who are dear to us or those who were of certain significance or prominence, after their death, is common in all cultures of the world. These memorials also have social and political significance where they help in building our identities. In India people created another kind of memorials called samadhis. There is some spiritual significance to such samadhis and people go to a samadhi not just to remember the dead or pay their respects but also to be in its presence and meditate.
The pyramids of Egypt are perhaps physically the largest and most spectacular attempt ever at connecting the here with the hereafter. The basic quality of the pyramid is preservation. It does not help the dead in any way, except assisting in the preservation of the physical. This is how mummies were preserved for thousands of years. In India, preserving the dead body is the last thing we want to do. Destroying the body immediately is very good for both the dead and the living. Preserving the body is only a torture for the person who has departed.
.
