Bhagavan of Death

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>From Conscious Immortality

 

Q: Can yogis show us the dead?

M: They may be able to, but don't ask me to do it because I cannot.

Did we know our relatives before their births that we should know them

after their deaths?

Q: What happens to a person after death?

M: Engage your self in the living present. The future will take care

of itself. Do not worry about the future.

Q: It is possible to know the after-death state of a person?

M: Some are born immediately after, and others after a lapse of time.

A few are not reborn on this earth but get salvation from the higher

regions, and a very few get absorbed here and now.

Q: But is it possible to know their condition after death?

M: It is possible. But why try?

Q: Because I consider my own son's death to be real from my level of

understanding.

M: The birth of the `I'-thought is your son's birth; its death is the

person's death. After the `I'-thought has arisen, wrong identification

with the body arises.

Thinking yourself as the body, you give false values to others and

identify them with bodies. Did you think of your son before his birth?

Only as you are thinking of him, he is you son. Where has he gone? He

has gone to the source from which he sprang. He is on with you. So

long as you are, he is there too.

 

See the real Self and then this confusion with the body will vanish.

you are eternal. The other will be found to be eternal. Until this

truth is realized there will always be this grief due to wrong

identification. Birth and death and rebirth should only make you

investigate the question and discover that there are no birth or

rebirths: they relate to the body and not to the Self.

Q: Do you see the dead?

M: Yes, in dreams.

Q: Why does a soul die in childhood? It does not seem fair because it

has not had enough experience of life to win realization.

M: You do not know the child's viewpoint! Yours is simply of the

intellect. We and our children are all from God and in God. God takes

care of us and our children.

Q: What about after death?

M: Enquire first, `Who or what is it that is born? It is the body, not

you. Why trouble about things beyond you, like death, when your Self

is here and present?

How long does on stay in other worlds between birth and death?

M: The sense of time is relative. In a dream you may live a whole

day's events in a couple of hours. In the subtle body of the

death-world you may do the same and live what seems like a thousand

year, although by our time it may be only a hundred years.

Q: They say that choice is offered to us to enjoy merits or demerits

after our death. Is that right?

M: Why these questions relating to after death? Why ask, `Was I born?

Am I reaping the fruits of my past karma?' and so on. They will not be

raised after you have been asleep for a while. Why? Are you different

from the one in sleep?

 

You are just the same in sleep, in dream, and in the waking state.

Sleep is a natural state of happiness, there is no misery. The sense

of want, of pain etc, arises only in the waking state. What is the

change that has taken place? You are the same in both but there is a

difference in happiness. Why? Because the mind has now arisen. This

mind arises after the `I'-thought. The `I'-thought arises from

Consciousness; if one abides in it, one will always be happy.

Q: Is the jiva capable of spiritual progress in the animal body?

M: It is not impossible, but it is exceedingly rare.

Q: Can a human being be reborn as a lower animal?

M: Yes, it is possible, as illustrated by Jada Bharate (the royal sage

who was reborn as a deer, as told in the scriptures).

Humans can be reborn as animals, depending on the last train of

thought or mood prior to death.

Q: There is a religion called Christian Science which has a similar

doctine. Is it correct?

M: Yes, but do not concern your self with results.

Q: What is the state just before death?

M: When a person gasps for breath, it indicates un-consciousness of

the body; while gasping the person is in something like a dream, and

not aware of the present environment.

Q: Does the mind state at that time reveal the next incarnation of the

perosn?

M: Yes, in this case, but in other cases tthe