Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story
“When the body is still strong, what is meant to be can always be transcended.” – Sadhguru
4.1 Cheating Death
By doing certain things you can postpone death, but you cannot cheat death; you cannot avoid death. It is a silly idea that winning over death is to live forever physically. But one who is beyond the body has won over death. If you transcend the fear of death then, in a way, death does not matter.
TIME
Time is the platform for Creation to exist. Without it, Creation would not exist. You know time because of the cycles of the body. So if you slow down the cycles of the body by going into samadhi, you may reduce time to one year in your experience, what is, otherwise, ten years to other people.
POSTPONING DEATH
Shirdi Sai Baba was dying due to severe asthma. He managed to postpone his death by going into samadhi and recharging his pranic system. We are not cheating death. We are only making sure life happens, that is all!
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
You can say each life has its own trajectory as to when it is born, how it lives, what it undergoes, how it dies, and so on. Advanced Isha programs require a precise infrastructure to be maintained and followed in order to be successful. The essence of the spiritual process is getting them all into a trajectory, that ensures that life happens. This is what we ensure in the programs. This is spiritual discipline.
LIMITATION
Since you have to explain everything, there are so many things you cannot do with people. They will put everything under their limited logical lens and come to their own conclusions.
NOTE: Subject Clearing helps overcome this limitation by helping people broaden their viewpoint (logical lens).
4.2 The Dance of Death
MIRACLE
Being able to raise the dead is a deep fascination for most people. For them, that is the ultimate test of someone’s spiritual powers. Only someone who has no sense of life at all would interfere with the life process and try to bring back the dead.
MISDIAGNOSIS
Historically, there have been many people who were declared dead, but they came alive after some time. But these were not cases of miracles or someone meddling with life but that of misdiagnosis.
RAISING FROM THE DEAD
Death is not an event but a process that could stop progressing or can even reverse itself due to various reasons. Until the point where Udana Vayu has withdrawn completely from the body, revival is a possibility, at least in principle. But after Udana Vayu has left the body, there is absolutely no chance to revive someone. When one is bitten by a snake, the prana takes a much longer time to leave the body. In the meantime, if the effect of the venom wears out or if there is an external infusion of prana, then it is possible for the person to be revived.
TANTRIC PROCESS
Tantric processes make use of energy that is still operating at cellular level after the person has died. By investing a certain amount of energy into the corpse, they are able to get it to perform some action for some occult purposes. They want to use this little spurt or energy to transport themselves into something. This is not as if the dead person is being brought back to life, nor is it of much spiritual significance.
4.3 Transmigration
The Eastern and Native American cultures were big on transmigration—the process of someone taking on the body of another person, usually a freshly dead person. This is very much possible. All it takes is a little bit of an understanding of the mechanics of how life happens within you. All this is occult. It is not of spiritual significance, really.
4.4 Seeking Immortality
DESIRE FOR IMMORTALITY
Happy people are loosely attached to life. They are willing to drop off at any time. Miserable people cling to life more than anyone else because they have never really lived.
EXTENDING LIFE
Extending the life of the body may become possible, but unless you have sadhana in your life and a certain level of mastery over your system, you will not have a mind if you live very long. If you want to work on the extension of the life of your body, you need to do it with the right kind of sadhana, not with outside fixing. If you do the right kind of sadhana, when the body is stretched, along with it, the Prarabdha Karma will also open up. It will open up other dimensions of karmic substance, and there will be substance to keep this going. If you do sadhana and live for 400 years, then you would be of tremendous value to the world.
4.5 Seeking the Next Dimensions
The very nature of the being is such that it wants to go to the next dimension or to the ultimate dimension. Living well means that you have grasped all aspects of life. Once one realizes one is repeating the same thing, they will suffer. They will want to move on to the next dimension.
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