CHAPTER 5: Mahasamadhi

Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story

“Mahasamadhi is the end of the game. The cycle is over. There is no question of rebirth; it is complete dissolution. You can say this person is truly no more.” ~ Sadhguru

5.1 Samadhi and Death 

SAMADHI
Sama means equanimity, and dhi means buddhi, or the intellect. Samadhi is a state of equanimity where the intellect goes beyond its normal function of discrimination. You are simply here, seeing life in its true working. You do not make a distinction. Samadhi is far from being some deathlike situation as generally misunderstood. In the samadhi state, your discriminatory intellect is perfectly in place but, at the same time, you have transcended it. 

DISCRIMINATION
The fundamental nature of the intellect is to discriminate. You are able to discriminate between a person and a tree only because your intellect is functioning. Discrimination is an instrument that supports and executes the instinct of survival present in every cell of the body. If you transcend the intellect, you become equanimous. But this does not mean you lose the ability to discriminate. If you lose the discriminatory intellect, you will become insane.

TRANSCENDING DISCRIMINATION
The moment you transcend the intellect, you see the wholeness of reality. A state like this gives you an experience of the oneness of the Existence, the unification of everything that is. Everything is here, in this moment. This in turn loosens one from this physical body. A space between what is you and your body is created. The physical body is intact, but the contact with the physical body has become very minimal.

SAVIKALPA SAMADHI
Savikalpa samadhis are samadhis with attributes or qualities. They are very pleasant, blissful and ecstatic.

NIRVIKALPA SAMADHI
Nirvikalpa samadhis are without attributes or qualities. They are beyond pleasant and unpleasant. Those who go into nirvikalpa samadhi states are always kept in protected states because their contact with the body becomes very minimal. The smallest disturbance, like a sound or a pinprick, can dislodge them from their body. These states are maintained for certain periods to establish a firm distinction between oneself and the body. It is a significant step in one’s spiritual evolution, but still not the ultimate.

SELF-REALIZATION
Samadhis by themselves have no great significance in terms of Self-Realization, or knowing the true nature of the Self. Samadhi is just moving into a higher level of experience and you might get more caught up because it is more beautiful than the current reality. If you have made Self-Realization the top priority in your life, then everything else which does not take you one step closer is meaningless.

5.2 Enlightenment and Death 

If you raise the intensity of life energies beyond a certain pitch, you will get Enlightened and leave. If you drop it below a certain level, you will die. This is the natural process. An Enlightened person must constantly create some conscious purpose to hang on to their body. Only a rare few attain a certain level of understanding, and manage to retain this body with their Self-Realization.

5.3 Mukti and Mahasamadhi 

MUKTI
In the Indian way of life, mukti or freedom from the cycle of birth and death is the highest goal of life. Reaching God or heaven is not the highest goal of life. Nor is it flying freely in the sky like a bird. The words Moksha and Nirvana are also referring to mukti.

NIRVANA
Nirvana is a more appropriate word because Nirvana means non-existence. What it means is that you are free from the very burden of existence. Your existence is finished. As long as you exist, one way or the other you are bound. Everything that exists is ruled by some law. Nirvana or mukti means you have broken all laws and they can be broken only when you cease to exist. That is the ultimate freedom.

MAHASAMADHI
Mukti is also called as Mahasamadhi. In Mahasamadhi one is able to walk out of one’s body, consciously, without damaging it, and without using any other external means. You also transcend discrimination so that there is no such thing as you and the other. The life within and life without become one.

5.4 A Few Mahasamadhis

Swami Nirmalananda and Sadhguru’s wife Vijji.

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December 21, 2023 – 5:24 AM Categories: Sadhguru | Post a comment

CHAPTER 4: Can Death Be Hacked

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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December 19, 2023 – 8:41 PM Categories: Sadhguru | Post a comment

CHAPTER 3: The Quality of Death

Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story

“No two people in the world live their lives the same way. Similarly, no two people die the same way. People may die in the same situation, of the same cause, but still they don’t die the same way.” ~ Sadhguru

3.1 Types of Deaths 

GOALS
As people create ‘life goals’ for themselves, there is growing awareness that one should set ‘death goals’ as well.

UNTIMELY DEATH
We call a death untimely when someone has intent to live, that is, they still have Prarabdha Karma to work out, but suddenly something strikes them down and they die. Most people do not die a natural death because they die while their intent is still on.

TIMELY DEATH
Chronological age, whether you are thirty-five or sixty-five or ninety-five years old is not the point. The criterion is that the intent to live is gone. Then, in terms of life, it is a timely death.

NATURAL DEATH
In a natural or timely death, Prarabdha Karma, or the information that runs the life, runs out and life becomes feeble. Life peters out slowly and this is not torturous but beautiful. The last few moments will become very peaceful, wonderful and perceptive. There is no attachment but an extraordinary sense of maturity. Natural death is not a bad death. It is a good thing for you and a good thing for those you are leaving behind because you are not being forced out of your body. For this to happen, you need to empty your Prarabdha Karma before your body wears out.

RUNNING OUT PRARABDH KARMA
How rapidly you empty your Prarabdha Karma depends on how quickly you move from one aspect of life to another. If you are eighty and still think like a teenager wanting to romance someone, your Prarabdha Karma has not run out. You are not rid of what you should have done at sixteen or eighteen. Now, it will not matter if you live to be a hundred, you will still die an unnatural death because the body will run out, but the Prarabdha Karma will not. 

MORTALITY
If a person dies naturally, he or she clearly knows that they are going to die and you will see they will display extraordinary wisdom. That possibility is being completely obliterated in the so-called modern society because everyone is trying to be immortal at any cost, and they will die a bad death because of that. You can die well only if you accept your mortality.

DEATH BY CHOICE
This, in a sense, is not death, but actually the transcendence of the cycle of birth and death. This can happen when a person is able to untangle his life energy from the physical body without damaging it. The person has understood where the keys to his or her karmic structure are and is able to dismantle it completely. Such a person becomes truly no more. This is considered the highest kind of death. This is also referred to as Mahasamadhi in the Hindu tradition and Mahaparinirvana in the Buddhist tradition. In English, we simply call it Liberation, meaning one has become free from the very process of life, birth and death. 

3.2 Predictions of Death 

It is difficult to predict death when a person is on a spiritual path. But there are factors, such as, a person’s energy, the exhaustion of Prarabdha Karma and various other aspects, that can help predict a person’s death. Apparently, death can be sensed in advance consciously or unconsciously. According to Sadhguru, “When there is an imminent death, the defined boundaries of the body will be somewhat diffused, which will dilute one’s physical presence in our vision.” 

The transition from life to death is a transition from a certain level of dynamism to a certain level of inertia. Eyeballs will focus less. Breath will become shallower. Foreseeing death up to four to six months is very much a possibility. So at that time, if you become meditative, you will go peacefully and joyfully, and the shutting down will happen well. Otherwise, if you fight it and do this and that, you will leave in ugly ways; it may become painful and disturbed. This is why it is said that you must be ready for death every moment of your life. When it is time, you will know how to sit in a conducive place and die. That is the best way.

3.3 Negative Energies 

CURSE
One simple way people try to hurt others is through a curse. It is a certain level of black, negative thought that is directed towards you. Because of this, you become sick. When this happens, if you don’t find a good doctor, you can become mentally unstable or even die. 

NOTE: A curse appears to be a way of restimulating a person’s case.

BLACK ART
After the mind, blood is the most susceptible thing. The next thing that can be affected is your liver or your kidneys because, once again, certain things flow through these. Above all, it is vulnerability of fear that generally does a large part of the work. If one, either through devotion or meditativeness, comes to a sense of fearlessness, that is the simplest way of being above such base arts. 

CURE FROM NEGATIVE IMPACT
One simple way is to be in the space of the Dhyanalinga for three days. If there is strong sadhana, one does not have to worry about all these things. For such a person, all these things don’t matter. For example, if the brahmacharis sit in Siddhasana, with their eyeballs rolled up intensely, it will all be gone in two minutes.

NOTE: Being in the space of Dhyanalinga sounds like Placebo effect caused by faith. Siddhasana sounds like self-hypnosis.

3.4 Suicide: A Perspective 

SUICIDE
Suicide is one classification of death that has become a growing epidemic of our times, even though our generation of people have more comfort and convenience than any other in the history of humankind. This is an indicator of things going seriously wrong with humanity.

NOTE: The book says, “Referring to Sadhguru’s own peculiar predicament, where, having already dismantled his karmic structure, he has to strive to keep his body.” From my perspective, nobody is fully free of karma, until everybody is free of karma. This is according to the Principle of Oneness.

REASON FOR SUICIDE
Fundamentally, people want to commit suicide because in some way they don’t know how to handle life. It is like you want to find a permanent solution to a temporary situation in life. That is all it is. Either they don’t know how to handle their emotions, thoughts, physical ailment, financial or family situation—there is something they don’t know how to handle. When you are trapped in that situation, it may look like it is the end of the world in your understanding. Essentially, you do not know how to handle a specific aspect of your life. So you think the best thing is to end life. It is ignorance, ignorance about the nature of life.

HANDLING
A lot of fixing is needed in the world because sometimes people do terrible things to each other.

3.5 Succour for the Suicidal 

SUICIDAL MENTAL STATE 
Most people who want to commit suicide do it not because the world is torturing them; it is because they are torturing themselves through their own thoughts and emotions. They drive themselves to this point, simply because they have not made an attempt to know anything about the fundamental nature of their own existence and the mechanics of life that they are. Silly little thoughts and emotions that they created become a Universe in itself. Those who really want to commit suicide generally become quiet.

HANDLING
Sympathy is not what a suicidal person needs. He needs a little treatment and very cautious levels of disdain. In Yoga, a suicidal tendency is considered the result of an aberration or distortion at the energy level of the person. For such people, only bringing a certain amount of exuberance to their energies will bring them out of it. There are tools and methods to do this, and it is possible to pull most people out of it. Time, energy and organization are the only barriers to this.

3.6 The Consequences of Suicide

SUICIDE
In suicide, one breaks one’s body while the Prarabdha Karma is still on. All that life cares about is are you making a pleasant experience of it for yourself, or an unpleasant experience, and the consequences come accordingly. With death, only the physical body is gone, the subtler bodies still hang around until the allotted karma is finished. When young people commit suicide, particularly in very great distress, they linger around for a long time.

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December 17, 2023 – 9:22 PM Categories: Sadhguru | Post a comment

CHAPTER 2: The Process of Death

Reference: DEATH: An Inside Story

“What you are calling as life, right now, is like soap bubbles being blown. The entire Yogic process or the entire spiritual process is to wear this bubble thin, so that one day when it bursts, there is absolutely nothing left and it moves from the bondage of existence to the freedom of non-existence, or Nirvana.” ~ Sadhguru

2.1 What Makes Us Tick

TYPES OF MEMORY
According to Sadhguru, memory is any trace of influence that is retained from the past. The eight layers of memory are as follows:

  1. Elemental Memory (postulates)
  2. Atomic Memory (perceptual elements)
  3. Evolutionary Memory (inanimate/animate memory)
  4. Genetic Memory (impression passed through genes)
  5. Karmic Memory (misconceptions)
  6. Unconscious Memory (facsimiles)
  7. Subconscious Memory (impressions)
  8. Conscious Memory (fully assimilated sensory data)

MEMORY & LIFE
Sadhguru says, “All these eight types of memory will play out in your day-to-day life according to the impressions accumulated and the situations you are faced with. Broadly speaking, these are the layers of memories that make you the life you are.” 

KARMA
Each ‘being’ comes with a certain level of energy allotted to activity at birth itself. It is divided into physical, mental, voluntary, and involuntary activities. Memory is like a software that is a combination of time, energy and information.

PRARABDHA KARMA
The information that is carried forth through many lives is referred to as karma. Part of this karma, which has some extra urgency to it (called prarabdha), gets allocated to this birth to wear off in the form of different kinds of activity.

SPIRITUAL PATH
Once you are on the spiritual path, you want to exhaust your energies allocated for physical activity very fast, so that after that the body will simply sit. The idea of being on a spiritual path is to put life on fast forward so you can discharge as much karma as possible. Spiritual discipline helps you do that.

2.2 A Bubble of Life and Death

Life and death is not a binary situation. Someday, we shall find that there is a spectrum of aliveness and everything fits somewhere on this spectrum. If we give the “memory software” a certain amount of vibrancy, it will slowly gather an intelligence of its own. It is only a web of memory that creates an illusion of ‘this person’. It converts the food into who the person is. If the memory goes away, the whole person will collapse. As the person ages he loses his intent; then, gradually, action goes first, then the conscious memory will begin withdrawing and along with that the energies will go. People who have lost their memory will have different traits but no personality. If the Conscious, Subconscious and Unconscious Memories are gone, the Genetic Memory will come into play.

What you refer to as life, right now, is like soap bubbles being blown. The air inside is the life energy. The outside boundary is the memory. With sadhana, you blow a huge bubble. A big bubble means an evolved level of activity and intent that is very obvious and cannot be ignored. Enlarging a bubble means making the wall thinner and thinner. You stretch it so much that it will burst one day. The memory stretches itself so thin, that when it is broken, it is really gone. The entire Yogic process is to wear this bubble thin so that one day when it bursts, there is absolutely nothing left. It then moves from the bondage of existence to the freedom of non-existence, or Nirvana. 

When death occurs, your physical self—an accumulation of the Genetic, Evolutionary and other Memories—is gone but the deeper layer of Karmic Memory remains intact. In that sense, this long-term memory within you, will determine the nature of your future life and experience. It is this Karmic wall of the bubble that you still need to take care of. One way to handle this is to capture a larger piece of life. Now, even if you did not do anything much about dismantling your karma, the karmic wall becomes very thin simply because the ‘life size’ became more. 

Another way is by being in the right spaces, in communion with the right kind of people and the right kind of atmosphere, but it is not about oneself. The moment it is about me, karma will grow. So the whole spiritual path in India has been designed in such a way that the karmic wall does not gather substance. At the same time, you go on enhancing the volume of life that you gather. The karmic wall becomes increasingly irrelevant and, ultimately, dissolves completely. Then we would not call it death. It is the ultimate freedom.

2.3 Understanding Life and Death

This person is a composition of five sheaths (koshas) or bodies. 

  1. Annamaya Kosha (the food body)
  2. Manomaya Kosha (the mental body)
  3. Pranamaya Kosha (the energy body)
  4. Vignanamaya Kosha (the etheric body)
  5. Anandamaya Kosha (the bliss body)

The outermost sheath of a human being is the Annamaya Kosha, or the physical body. It is just an accumulated heap of food. The second layer is the Manomaya Kosha or the mental body. It comprises your thoughts, emotions and all the mental processes, both conscious and unconscious. There is memory and intelligence in every cell in the body. The mind and body influence each other. The mind and body cannot do anything unless you plug into quality power. So there is a third layer of the self, called the Pranamaya Kosha or life energy. All these three—the physical body, the mental body and the energy body—are physical in nature. All these three physical dimensions of life carry the imprints of karma, or Karmic Memory. Karma is imprinted on the body, the mind and on the energy. It is this karmic structure that holds the being together.

The fourth layer of the self is called the Vignanamaya Kosha, or the knowledge body. It is beyond the sense perceptions. It links the physical to the non-physical. If you learn to find conscious access to this dimension, there will be a quantum leap in your ability to know the cosmic phenomenon. The fifth sheath is known as the Anandamaya Kosha, or the bliss body. It has nothing to do with the physical realms of life. It has no form of its own. Yoga talks about it only in terms of experience. When you access this indefinable dimension, it produces an overwhelming experience of bliss. 

When someone drops dead, only their outermost sheaths—the Annamaya Kosha and the conscious parts of the Manomaya Kosha—are lost. The rest of the structure is still intact; it will seek another womb and manifest itself once again in the physical plane. This is why death is not dissolution. But if the energy body, the mental body and the physical body are taken away, the bliss body will become a part of the Cosmos. Now, they are completely no more. This is the whole story of life, death and dissolution

2.4 Pancha Pranas: The Five Vital Energies

PRANMAYA KOSHA (Prana)
Pranmaya Kosha are the vital energies that govern life.

PANCHA VAYUS (Pancha Pranas)
Pancha Vayus are the five basic dimensions of Prana. At the moment of death, each of these pranas recedes differently and affects the dead differently.

SAMANA VAYU (Samat Prana)
Samana Vayu is in charge of maintaining the temperature of your body. By activating it, you can activate your energies in such a way that you become less and less vulnerable to the external elements in Nature. It is also very healing in nature. Samana Vayu is also in charge of your digestive process. It helps you burn up the food as quickly as possible.

PRANA VAYU
Prana Vayu is in charge of your respiratory and thought process. For every kind of thought that you get, your breath changes in a subtle way.

UDANA VAYU
Udana Vayu creates buoyancy and makes you less available to gravity. On the weighing scale, you are still the same, but in your experience, you will feel as if the body has become so light that it is like floating around. Udana Vayu is also in charge of your ability to communicate.

APANA VAYU
Apana Vayu is in charge of your excretory system and the sensory function. Only when the excretory system is efficient at the cellular level will you have the necessary sensitivity for sensory perception. When there is food in the stomach and digestion is in progress, the excretory system slows down.

VYANA VAYU
Vyana Vayu is that which knits all these billions of cells into one organism. It preserves the body for a long time. If one has mastery over one’s vyana, one can leave one’s body at will. Vyana Vayu is also in charge of your ability to move. It is a very important aspect of spiritual growth. It also enhances your intuitive nature.

2.5 The Sequence of Death

MOMENT OF DEATH
Your breath stopping, heart stopping or your brain going flat on the monitors is not death. Only when the Pancha Pranas exit the physical body completely it is death. The withdrawal of the pranas happens over a period of time. All the pranas do not exit the body at the same time. There is a definite pattern in which they exit.

PATTERN OF DEATH

  1. The first thing that happens after death is that the body starts cooling down. Within twenty-one to twenty-four minutes from the breath stopping, Samana Vayu exits the body completely.
  2. Prana Vayu exits the body completely within forty-eight to ninety minutes after the breath stops, depending upon the nature of death. The respiratory action and thought process begins to recede along with the withdrawal of Prana Vayu.
  3. Udana Vayu exits between six and twelve hours after the breath stops. Once Udana Vayu goes away, then the buoyancy in the body is also gone.
  4. Apana Vayu exits the body somewhere between eight to eighteen hours after the breath has stopped. A dead body retains sensations until the Apana Vayu has totally left. 
  5. Vyana Vayu, which is the preservative nature of prana, is the slowest to exit. It will continue to do so for up to eleven to fourteen days if the death is because of old age and life became feeble.

2.6 Chakras: The Gateways of Exit

CHAKRA
Chakras are points of intersection of various energy channels of the pranic system in the body. There are a total of 114 such chakras, 112 of them in the body and two outside the body. The levels of activation of these chakras greatly determine the quality of life led by the person. See Kundalini and the Chakras. Correspondingly, how energy moves through these chakras in death determines the quality of the death too.

LEAVING THE BODY
Each death is characterized not just by how the pranas have exited the body but also through which chakra or chakras they exited. Ideally, one should leave the body consciously.

(1) Muladhara Chakra: A very gross person, or a person in fear, end up leaving through the Muladhara Chakra, located at the perineum. Such a person will pass urine and feces with a certain force at the time of death. He is resisting death and struggling with fear. This is not a good way to die.

(2) Swadhishthana Chakra: One who exits through the Swadhishthana Chakra, located in and above the genital organ, can be reborn with extraordinary creative prowess.

(3) Manipura Chakra: One who exits through the Manipura Chakra, located just below the navel, can be capable of a very organized sense of action. One may become a genius of organization in his or her next life.

(4) Anahata Chakra: One who exits through the Anahata Chakra, where the ribcage meets, can become a prodigy in music or the arts who can inspire many. One could be a potential polymath.

(5) Vishuddhi Chakra: For someone to exit through the Vishuddhi Chakra, situated at the pit of the throat, is very rare. But if that happens, one will possess an incredible perception of this world and the beyond. Such a person will also exist in an absolute sense of dispassion and fearless involvement in all aspects of life. A phenomenal sense of clarity will be predominant in them.

(6) Agna Chakra: The Agna Chakra, located between the eyebrows, is of a higher order, it is more common for people to exit through the Agna Chakra than the Vishuddhi Chakra.

(7) Sahasrara Chakra: A person who is fully conscious will leave through their Sahasrara Chakra, from the top of their head. It may actually leave a physical hole there. That is the best way to leave. If you want that moment of death to happen in full awareness, you have to live a life of awareness.

BRAHMARANDHRA
Brahmarandhra is the bit of the skull at the top of the head that is not yet formed in infants for quite some time. 

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December 16, 2023 – 6:05 AM Categories: Sadhguru | Post a comment

Subject Clearing Existence

Please see Postulate Mechanics.

Processing is the application of a procedure to bring about an improvement in a person’s condition. In Subject Clearing, the processes have been obtained from the study of Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, Psychoanalysis and Scientology.

In Subject Clearing, you can always go back to a previously applied process and run it again.

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Process

This Subject Clearing process explores the subject of the universe. 

PREREQUISITE: Subject Clearing Universe

Look up these words in this sequence per the definitions given below.

EXISTENCE, CYCLE, DIMENSION, DUALITY, CONTINUITY, CONSISTENCY, HARMONY, APPEARANCE, CAUSE-EFFECT, CONTINUOUS-DISCRETE.

As you look up a definition, ask yourself,

“What crosses my mind as I look up this definition?”

Notice the internal reaction. Apply The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness to that reaction. If there is a disagreement, or you sense some anomaly, then address it with Subject Clearing Viewpoint.

You may consult dictionaries, Wikipedia, Textbooks, etc., to sort out the disagreement or anomaly present. Contemplate on these words until you are fully satisfied with your understanding.

For more definitions, please refer to KHTK Glossary: Subject Clearing.

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Definitions

EXISTENCE
The dimension of existence is represented by the cycle of “begin-change-end”.

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CYCLE
A cycle is a series of occurrences that repeats. The cycle of existence applies to everything in the universe. All the parts of the universe are beginning, continuing and ending continually. The substance of the universe is cycling through the phases of thought, energy and matter. But the overall substance is conserved and the universe is a constant presence. The universe has neither a beginning nor an end.

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DIMENSION
Origin: ‘a measuring’. Existence is the basic dimension of the universe. A dimension represents a continuously varying characteristic. A dimension may be plotted mathematically on a scale that extends to infinity in either direction. We have dimensions of distance, temperature, emotions, etc. Anything that can be measured exists in a dimension. The universe has infinity of dimensions.  

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DUALITY
A dimension extends in two opposite directions. The dimension of temperature extends to increasingly hot in one direction and increasingly cold in the other. Similarly, the dimension of existence extends toward beginning in one direction and toward ending in the other. These two opposites represent a duality. There are dualities of good-evil, survive-succumb, day-night, etc. Duality is the natural characteristic of the universe.

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CONTINUITY
A dimension is continuous from one side of the duality to the other. The cycle of existence represents continuity of substance in spite of all its variations. The universe exists in this background of continuity.

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CONSISTENCY
The substance has consistency (a degree of density, firmness, viscosity, etc.). This consistency ensures a smooth gradient among the variations of substance. The universe exists in this background of consistency.

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HARMONY
Since the universe evolves in the background of continuity and consistency, it possesses harmony among all its dimensions.

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APPEARANCE
The universe is naturally continuous, consistent and harmonious. However, its appearance is dependent on our viewpoint. Therefore, the universe may not appear as it naturally is.

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CAUSE-EFFECT
The cause-effect is a dimension of the universe that describes the direction in which it is evolving. Cause and effect describe the two ends of a dimension that extends to infinity in either direction. There is no absolute cause or effect. Each point on this dimension is the cause of the next point. Thus, cause-effect simply describes the evolutionary nature of this universe. 

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CONTINUOUS-DISCRETE
“Continuous and Discrete” is a very fundamental duality of energy. Electromagnetic (EM) waves of low frequency were dealt by Maxwell as if they formed a continuum. But, as Einstein showed, these EM waves gradually become quantized at increasing frequencies. This means that the EM waves increasingly exhibit discrete particle-like properties similar to the atoms in a volume of gas. This was the discovery that won Einstein the Nobel Prize.

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