WHY DO WE FEAR DEATH?   HOW TO AVOID THIS FEAR OF DEATH?   Pravin Kumar

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Comment by VINOD BHASIN on August 5, 2011 at 3:43pm

Sri OM Jai Om...

Parvin ji

I do very much appreciate when you write "a Saint is constantly meditating and draws energy from the Universe. He therefore wears wooden sandals so that the energy in his body does get dissipated in the earth."

 

This is very much true and conforms to the principles of Meditation when we put traditionally a wooden plank to sit and meditate. The energy must be preserved.

 

That is why when we sit we join both hands and put fingures across in Meditation. Some of us have Yog Mudras to preserve the energy.

 

May God Bless all of us to share and care 4 each other !!

Comment by Pravin Kumar on August 4, 2011 at 12:18pm

Once I had asked this question about Saints wearing Wooden Sandals to my Gurudev. He replied that a Saint is constantly meditating and draws energy from the Universe. He therefore wears wooden sandals so that the energy in his body does get dissipated in the earth.

Another thing I have observed is wearing Wooden Sandals and then walk is very very difficult. It requires lots of patience and practise which these Saints are used to. Just imagine wearing a wooden sandal with no rubber soul and also only one piece on the top to hold your legs, how does one balance the back part from shifting here and there?

 

Very happy to note various replies which are also correct.

 

Pravin Kumar

 

 

Comment by Pravin Kumar on August 2, 2011 at 2:47pm

"Death is nothing but Sweet Sleep" says Dada J.P. Vaswani. I have experienced this Sweet Sleep on 4 occasions and came back. I wish I was permanently into that blissful state when You do not know who you are, neither now your attachments like parents, wife, children, brothers, sisters etc. No memory of friends or foes. Body is painless and hence sweet sleep. So Death, if one knows how sweet it can be, everyone would welcome after experiencing it once and coming back into this life to tell how he/she felt. 

 

Death is feared most because our Desires are never fulfilled. The more the desires the more the fear of Death. One rich businessman was travelling in a flight with a huge cash on his body. As the plane had to go through a difficult stretch and captain cautioned everyone this man explained: Oh what will happen to my 50 lakhs rupees. So he feared death for he won't be able to save it. 

 

A person who meditates daily will never experience fear in any situation as he becomes more and more perfect and regular in his meditation. I remember once when I was in a flight of 1 hour in the noon. After having lunch/snacks and half an hour having passed and the weather outside being bright sunshine and cloudless sky all of a sudden the plane encountered clouds and electromagnetic waves outside. The captain sounded frightened, the air hostesses ran here and there to their seats. I looked calmly at everyone murmuring the name of all the Gods they know of while I remained seated silentlly. Fear is such that a second appears to be minute but in such a state there is nothing you can do excepting pray to God. After a couple of minutes I remembered that I had practised Laxman Rekha (as Laxman drew a Rekha to protect Sitaji from the Demons) in meditation and then I drew a ring round the plane. After 10 full minutes the plane came out of that situation and everone were heard muttering: Thank God. 

 

So fear of losing all attachments materialistic in nature brings fear of Death. All of you have expressed the same thing in a different way and everyone is right. Glad to read so many intellectual responses. Above is my reply.

 

Pravin Kumar

 

Comment by VINOD BHASIN on August 2, 2011 at 11:21am

Sri Om Jai Om...

Death is the greatest of Fear for a human being after one's Birth.

 

Think how a child is born? He is at the mercy of Mother for water, food etc. and lies upside down in Mother's womb for 9 months.

 

When one is born he is always living in fear of Elders, Society, Moneyed Persons, etc. He fears the punishment and hard dealings of Gurus in Schools.

 

When one is young he is worried for earning Money or getting a good job. When Married he is under the scanner of society. If children are born or wife is there he is in fear of them even if he does not conduct well and cannot take care of their problems.

 

Now in old age, he becomes weak and fears accident and Death all the times. This is fact of life.

 

The fundamental question is how to win fear or Death?

 

One has to have Atam Gyan from an Atam Gyani called Sat Guru. One has to do Japa and Meditation (Mrityu Yog) and follow a way of life as taught by one's Sat Guru.

 

Reading books, pasting posts and listening any one and every one is not the solution to the problem.

 

The art of bowing or controlling ego is learnt from Sat Gurus alone and then and then alone one is able to win Death by becoming Jeevan Mukt who alone is out of fear of Death.

May God Bless !! 

 

Comment by Pandu(Bodily),SpiritualScientist on August 2, 2011 at 10:49am

" NO DEATH ! "

 Death ! - This is the only subject on which we have to deeply contemplate ! This is the only thing that about which every person has to know !

What did all Spiritual Masters throughout the various times, various countries, teach Humanity?

They taught things like You cannot die ... Death happens to the physical system, but not to you !... You are not just the physical system !  You are the Energy-Knowledge-Consciousness system that has become a physical system.

In the Upanishads, one of the MahaVakyas is Tatvamasi Swethakethu !

It means, O Swethakethu ! You are that, not this ! You are not the entity that meets the eye in the mirror ! You are not this physical system alone ! You are an Energy- Knowledge-Consciousness system, that is now an unique physical system. You are that O Swethakethu !

Similarly, when Buddha became enlightened, he had plenty of third eye and astral travel experiences, through which he had seen so many of his previous life-times, where so many times he was born into a human physical system, so many times he had departed from the human physical system. Again born and again vacated ! Having seen so many entries into the physical systems and so many departures through his own activated third eye, Gautama The Siddhartha, became Gautama The Buddha ! Now, he could see that there was no Death !

Being afraid of... Death... is such a laughable proposition ! People fear death because they don't know what death exactly is ! If and when they do come to know about death, it will be celebrated ! No death can ever be mourned !

Death would only become the death of a particular experience in a physical system ! The Energy-Knowledge-Consciousness Entity which got itself integrated with a physical system, thus far, gets separated and goes on its own grand onward journey into various other frequency universes ! That is Death !

Having tasted a little physicality, having experienced a certain physical life, the Entity... the Soul...the Jeeva...whatsoever name may it be called by...leaves the physical system and moves on.
We are all Eternal Verities, we are Deathless Souls ! Occasionally, we take a dip into a particular physical system. Now, this is done for various reasons... may be to learn certain lessons... may be to enjoy the physicality... may be for the company of other Souls who are in the same physical system. For various reasons, we dip into a physical system. Birth is a dip into a physical system and Death means we exit from the system ! Birth is a dip-in and Death is a
dip-out !

The Great Master Shakespeare said,

All the world is a stage, we are all mere actors; we strut and fume, do our part, and then depart !

So, we are here to enact our specific part, enact our specific role. And, sooner than later, we have to depart ! Death is just a departure ! It is not the annihilation of the Self !... This is the most important thing that we have to understand ! This is what is actually involved in Spirituality ! We have to understand that we are not annihilated when the physical body is getting annihilated !
In Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says...

Na Jayathe Mriyathe Vaa Kadachin naayam ! Bhuthwa Bhavitha Vaa Na Bhuyah !

Ajoh ! Nithya Shashvathoyam ! Purano ! Na Hanyathe Hanyamane Sharire ! "

This entity, this self, is unborn ! It cannot die ! It is a witness to all times ! It has been coming from time immemorial. When the body is dying, it cannot die ! </</body>

Comment by Dr. Sohiniben Shukla on August 2, 2011 at 10:24am

Dear Friends,

Death is a Natural process connected with our Soul .....This is a Cycle of our Journey  of the Soul.

Actually The day of Celebration.....when one has lived with complete Honor and Proper Long Life with total Health and Wealth......When a soul takes birth .....when it has not fulfilled the Mission of being Divine like God, The Sacred Source and just to have good virtues and become again Pure and Divine then will come out from this cycle of Birth and Death.....

Death is going from one room to the other, just changing the Dimension of the consciousness.....so no need to fear ......It becomes difficult for a person with bondage and does not want to leave this world......

SohiniBen.

 

Comment by K.R.Yaadagiri Rao on August 2, 2011 at 10:09am

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come."
~ Rabindranath Tagore.

Death in Hinduism
In Hinduism, death is not viewed as an anathema or the end of all but only a step in the existence of soul, a temporary cessation of physical activity. Since Hindus believe in reincarnation and the trans-migration of the soul, they approach the subject of death without much fear.

The Fear Factors
Let us first accept the fact that most of us loathe death because of the uncertainty of its time and place. Failure to survive when the time comes is the basic fear. The unwillingness to face this fear with proper understanding is due to the emphasis we lay upon the physical body. It is also based upon an innate fear of loneliness due to the loss of those we have been familiar with during our worldly existence.

Become Soul Conscious!
We brought nothing with us when we came, and would take nothing with us when we leave this world. In fact, we will leave a little extra behind if we lead a life of goodness and philanthropy. If we become soul-conscious, death will be an "ordered" process, carried out in full consciousness and with understanding of cyclic purpose.

Once understood, the fear of death ceases. It gives us a certain power to control our passing over to the other side of the veil. Let us approach death with as much normalcy as we can manage."

(From Gyan Rajhans, M.Sc. (Eng.), P.Eng,CIH,ROH)

Comment by Ranjeev Manrao on August 2, 2011 at 9:43am

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Dear Pravin Ji,

 

To me the best way is to Love Ourselves & know that our I am the Eternal  Soul and Not this Material Body.

 

Warm Regards

 

Ranjeev Manrao

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Comment by Rasa of Bhakti on August 2, 2011 at 9:30am

 

 

You have no philosophical problem with sleep, and yet you seem to have a philosophical problem with death. And it is not because of what you know about death — it is because of what you think happens to life when you die.

What you fear is the objectlessness that death seems to promise. It is ignorance that makes you fear death — a lack of knowledge, a lack of experience.

Why should you fear death any more than you fear sleep? Why are you so afraid of the loss of objects? Why are you afraid of the Very Condition you are in?

— Avatar Adi Da Samraj

 

Easy Death, by Avatar Adi Da Samraj