Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story
“We can make this life the last one for you but we cannot make this the most wonderful one. That only you have to do. For that, you must do sadhana. You must promise me that.” ~ Sadhguru
12.1 One Drop Spirituality
You may have realized how to live ecstatically but It is not easy to teach that to others. But it may be possible to teach them how to die well. Most people on the planet die badly. When a being is disembodied, whether their experience of life becomes heavenly or hellish largely depends on how they die. Many people have their life worked out according to their dreams, but when they come to the last mile of their life, they are completely out of sorts. They are completely broken people and die in a bad way. They die badly because modern societies are neither aware nor have they taken care of this important aspect as to how to die well.
LIVING WELL
If you feel happy because you have more things and comforts compared to others, then that is not living well. Living well is if you are able to sit here in such a way that nothing matters; whether you have something or not, even whether there is food to eat or not, it does not matter to you. You are just fine. It is not that you are incapable of earning your food and other things, but that does not decide who you are right now. If you are like this, you are living well for sure. Wherever you sit, your experience of life will be beautiful.
DYING WELL
Helping people to die well does not mean assisting them to die as euthanasia supporters advocate. Helping people to die means helping people to manage the moment of passing from physicality to beyond, from being embodied to being disembodied, in utmost awareness and grace. There are many methods to cultivate this awareness in life so that when the moment of death comes, it will carry you through in grace.
HELPING TO DIE WELL
Sometimes you stretch a person’s life because he has not exhausted his Prarabdha Karma but has run out of steam; and sometimes he has exhausted his Prarabdha Karma but still has steam, so you have to release it. Both are needed in life. Someone being liberated for good is possible only when someone has run the full course of prarabdha.
KARMIC BREAK
There are many people who die of old age; they may have lived as utter fools, but in the final few days, suddenly, there is a new sense of wisdom within them, a new sense of awareness about them because their karma allotment has finished. Just the minor things are left and the next quota of karma has not come in yet, so that is a blessed period. They are in a certain space where there is a karmic break. Such people can be dissolved very easily. We can help them die consciously rather than in an unconscious state.
DYING OF DISEASE
But when they die of disease before the Prarabdha Karma is complete, if one tries to dissolve them, it is not going to work. All we can do for them is help them to die with awareness; then they will have a little enhanced life somewhere else.
12.2 Once You Made a Mistake of . . .
It is better you live well, not just aim towards dying well. If you live well, then you would be prepared to die well also. So, you should be willing to do those things that will help you live well. To live gracefully is something you have to earn.
MAYA
Maya means that the way you are existing right now, your perception and understanding of life, is illusory. The most essential part of this illusion is your idea of you as a being or an individual. It is illusory.
INDIVIDUAL
You exist as an individual because you are a piece of earth. The illusory idea is that you are something connected to earth because it implies you are something else.
BRAHMACHARYA
Brahmacharya means you are on the path of the Divine where the focus is on a universal process rather than on individuality.
SEPARATENESS
Two unconscious entities cannot come together, they will always remain two separate bubbles of their own, even though the atmospheric transfer between the two is happening. So this illusion that you are a separate entity is a big problem.
THE PROCESS OF BEING
The whole process of being with something means just this, that you did not fix your boundaries for a moment. If you can do it for a day—that you did not fix any boundaries, you are simply here—we will worship you because that which does not have boundaries is Divine. So not a whole day, if you have experienced this state without boundaries for even one moment, there will be no more rebirth for you.
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