Death Directly exposes you to you

So it’s time to work on death. ☺ And especially today we are going to go to the cremation ground. How many of you are afraid of seeing dead body burning? Oh God! You are going to see something like 40 bodies burning and... double decker...they will put two body in one...no really. No, you will see part by part separately hanging and all. This is not even a decent cremation ground. No, just, actually you will see just the leg burning separately, falling down and then the guy will take the leg and put it back and then separately the stomach burning. Arey it’s a visual treat actually. ☺ No for your fear....actually that is the reason we are doing this whole program in Varanasi, understand. The fat burning and melting; you can see all that now. Actually the head - the face will be burnt but the skull will be there; all that you can see today... literally.

I had my own death experience in Manikarnika Ghat, here only in 1999. Completion with others is the strong suffering for you guys. So I am pushing you guys into that. So all the suffocation, anger, guilt, that ‘doesn’t want to be with yourself’ - all that will start erupting out. All that finally logically can never be beaten, only little bit can be decorated logically; but with this process the whole thing will just leave the system. Only after the death process your kundalini will settle down in third eye very stably. Whenever you want you will be able to use it; it’s literally like a rebirth.

And one more thing, when you see dead body burning, your bio memory will lose the fear of... all fears and the fear of death. Arey whether you have fear or don’t have fear is it going to delay your death? And you are not going to commit suicide just because you don’t have fear of death! All right... I will remove all the fear. Tomorrow are you going to commit suicide? No! So the fear, having fear is not going to delay your death, not having fear is not going to encourage you to commit suicide. Then why should we have fear to struggle with?

Yes this is the place where we are going to be. This is the place where I had death experience. [Photos projected] Two and a half days I was sitting there without 1-2-3-4-no sleep; then experienced death. All right I will talk about My experience later, let Me talk about your experience. See, death experience will pull out the patterns like tar. Have you seen this tar which they make road in Bharat? I think this much tar is stuck in your head so it will put the whole thing. ☺ This last 10 days we were removing it with ear bud. That much, that much, only was coming out. Now it will just heat it up and take the whole thing out. Because end of the day all patterns boil down to fear of your death or your near and dear ones death. Understand? Listen, all patterns boil down to fear of your death or your near and dear ones death.

How many of you have body pain... body pain? Completion with others always brings body pain... only then you are doing it properly. Otherwise you are not doing it properly. Always Completion with others will bring body pain... which something like a suddenly erupted out. Means that pulling out that hatred, violence; body pain is one of the symptom when that process happens.

All size, shape, today you will see burning. I think night they burn more because all the waiting list. See, here no mourning, so all the relatives will bring the body “ram naam satya hai, ram naam satya hai” they will bring, they will dip it in Ganga five times and hand over to the Dom Raja and go away. So Dom Raja, he keeps the whole thing pending. Whichever relatives themselves stand and burn and go - that is burnt in the day time... but all these which is handed over to Dom Raja – like orphan bodies or even the poor people - they don’t want to wait, it is getting too late for them to go back, they hand over to the Dom Raja with a full coconut... they will hand over. All the pending list will be done now only; waiting list in the night only. So I think usually night they burn more; from My experience.

I have spent at least 6 months in that cremation ground. Hmmm bit, bit, bit more than 6 months, not straight. Sometimes one month, sometimes 20 days, like that... but at least 6 months I have spent... at different, different times. Actually you guys if you understand to sit with it, suddenly you will see so much of clarity. Wow! What for we are... we are actually messing with life and nature for stupid things without even knowing what we want. And actually what I am uttering is too small word. So much of clarity will start happening in your bio memory. You will just know, “ehhh this [gestures to the body] is going to be burnt just like this ☺ present, future. You will just see so clearly your bio memory will just start relaxing.... just start relaxing. So much of patterns will become irrelevant. So much will become irrelevant.

Whether it is our Nirvani Akhada or the Aghori, Vaishnavite, Buddhists, Bairagis, you see in Kashi there are 200 Sampradayas having their head quarters. All 200 Sampradaya, the moment they give the deeksha they will ask you to go and sit in the Manikarnika for 3 months; because that will give you so much of lessons, so much of lessons. See the, you don’t, you never want to face the most certain thing in your life. What is the most certain thing in your life? Anything can, may, may not, but this one only... but you never want to see that, you never want to face it. You think, “Oh we have eternity. No, no, no, everyone will die, not me. And even if I die that is going to be like a LOT of time is there. We think LOT of time and by the time we raise the hand, tup! ☺ No really. Even though we are laughing, inside its frightening and we don’t want to see that. You feel “Oh god what is this, we thought He will give us bliss and peace and we came here”☺ ☺ but I tell you, I will give you the bliss and peace which is permanent in you, which nobody else can take it away; nobody can take it away. So, for that you need to see the reality of your life.

Understand. All this power, money, everything is great as long as they are utility... but they can’t become the purpose of your existence. Then you are corrupt in your very cognition, in your very DNA. Currency cannot become part of your DNA, it can be part of your purse. Property cannot become part of your DNA, it can be as a part of your home. We have allowed things too much inside. We have taken things too personally. That distance will start happening only when you see the ultimate Reality.

Lot of lessons, the strong Truths will casually become your understanding if you sit with a, in cremation ground where 1000s of bodies are getting burnt continuously. Every day average 500 bodies are burnt here.

Participant: Nithyanandam Swamiji. Recently I read an article about people of Bhutan who are considered some of the most happy people in the world and they are encouraged to think about their own death on a daily basis. It’s part of their daily routine.

Swamiji: In Buddhism every night you are supposed to meditate on your death.

Participant: So are they doing a completion process daily?

Swamiji: It is like a different way of completion

Participant: Thank you Swamiji

Swamiji: See, in the completion which I am teaching you guys is from Hindu tradition, the Saivite tradition, Mahadevas teaching. Shiva himself teaches this technique but the technique which you were talking ‘contemplating on the death’ is from Buddhist tradition what Bhutanese are practicing. And... in Agama also Mahadeva talks about death elaborately and gives more than 10 meditation techniques related to death. Today you will be going through that process.

Participant: Swamiji....if the very tenet of Hinduism is life after life after life, then why is leaving the body so

Swamiji: That is what... because you don’t understand that tenet as a experience. If you understand that as your experience you will not have fear.

Participant: Even though you mentally believe that you will be born

Swamiji: Not to me ...for a normal person

Participant: For a normal person okay

Swamiji: So they mentally understand but they have not experienced it... so the fear is there in bio memory; but when the bio memory itself understands then they know “Wow! So much time is there in front, nothing to worry. Sometimes the fear is due to discontinuity. You do not know the stop gap time what you will be where you will be.

Participant: The thought I have all the time in the mind is that “after I die what will happen to my loved ones?” So based on that I have a lot of financial insecurity.

Swamiji: I tell you, before you came world was functioning. So after you die world is going to function

Participant: Yes. But over the years I have taken lot of responsibility over lot of things in the family. So I have this thing that you know, the instability

So you think without you things won’t run. How many people would have thought like this, tell me. And all of them left. Is it not? Some even suddenly.

Participant: Yes

Swamiji: After that things did not move? We are all fitting into some roles. We are not beings understand. We are all roles. Once you fall, you don’t play that role... somebody else will be playing that role. We feel so disrespected to see this Truth... that is why we don’t want to believe this Truth. So we say, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no how can anybody else fit into my role? How great I am. No, no, no, no that cannot be.” You understand?

Participant: Okay, thank you

Swamiji: Ultimately only an Enlightened person is a Being, everyone else is a role.

Participant: Got it

Swamiji: Understand? Please understand when I am talking about death it will feel like I am disrespecting you guys. I am not disrespecting, I am just stating the fact. Don’t be hurt... but even if you are hurt what I am saying is Truth. “Don’t be hurt” is my request but even if you are hurt what I am saying is he Truth ☺ I am just talking the straight Truth. So, sometimes we do need to look into our puss and ready to see the wound and the puss which is inside. You can’t hide it and go on living forever and ever and ever. Death directly exposes you to you... your instabilities.

Actually death also makes you understand how insignificant your hormonal decisions are. See like when your bladder is full during the sleep, the filled bladder will create a rest room and make you do the act. Then you will wake up and you will see the whole rest room was imagination. How did that imagination come? The filled bladder is capable of creating a particular imagination and situation required for you to feel relieved. Same way when your body is filled with the hormone, the words you utter the situations you create, the whole thing, you are just capable of creating the things for your hormones to get released. The death, facing the death will give you the deeper understanding how insignificant hormones hijacks your life and you create the rest room and then when you wake up suddenly you feel cheated. Death will teach you nobody cheats you. It’s our decisions. Death will teach you nobody cheats you. It’s our decisions At least once in the life time you should face it. Today you have an opportunity... I am going to make you guys face it.

Next go ahead.

Participant: Swamiji I have two questions. The first one, when I think about dying and reincarnating the idea of reincarnating in a worse life than I have now ...

Swamiji: Actually usually you don’t go lower. A person who kills left and right human beings only they go into the lower, others don’t go into lower.

Participant: The other concept that if I try and think about it too hard about really I can’t reprimand around it is the idea of infinity.

Swamiji: You don’t have to think. You can’t cross unless your brain grows that subtle grooves which gets awakened by kundalini. Once the kundalini gets awakened then “God” the word will become so real for you, the “I” word will become empty for you. See when I utter “God” it has so much meaning for Me. When I utter the word “I” it has no meaning other than the word I am uttering. For you when you utter the word “I” it has so much meaning for you. When you utter the word “God” it is just emptiness. So the shift will happen when the kundalini reaches sahasrara.

Participant: Swamiji I have 3 big fear because I have ....not clear... at a very young age. So I can’t swim at all now

Swamiji: Don’t worry you are not going to go into Ganga now. You are only going to sit in the boat in Ganga. The boat is not going to go anywhere. It is going to be tied.

Participant: I also had a car accident before so I dare not to drive until now.

Swamiji: All right. Then.

Participant: I am also afraid of snakes because I always dream that I have been strangled by cobra or python. So I am very afraid of snakes.

Swamiji: We will work on all these fears.

Participant: Thank you

Swamiji: I don’t know how many of you guys will understand, I still never learnt swimming. See at the age of 4, my aunts and uncles all of them they go for vacation in the village. We had a vacation farm house. And there was a huge well where everyone jumps and swims and the kids are taught swimming... all the aunt, uncle, cousins; it’s almost like a 40-50 people. So one by one each kid they were putting them into the water and the kid was made to swim. The bottlegaurd the shell of the bottlegourd will be tied on your body like a tube; with that only the swimming is taught in Bharatn villages. That’s a water tube. And they were about to throw me in the water. I said... I was less than 5 years...I said, “No, I will not learn swimming. I am sannyasi.” There is a sannyas tradition the sannyasi is not supposed to learn swimming he is not supposed to cross water. In those days there is a tradition. “I am a sannyasi. I will not learn swimming.” They said, “What do you know about it?” I said, “I know.” At the age of 3-4 itself! And those days there is a tradition that you should not cross ocean, ride horse, light fire... because number of sannyasis was very less, so all the risky things they have been banned not to do, so they are protected, the number is protected. Of course now a days we go to country to country and that’s different.

Participant: Swami in Living enlightenment book I only read one thing. You have written that “Are you ready to face death and ask yourself.” So I really said, “No I am not ready.” The incompletions, guilt, fear, every time we carry with ourselves and during the time of death what actually happens, the hell is nothing. It is throughout the life what incompletions we carry in yourself and that teases you that you have done this. I really want to come out from this and

Swamiji: I will help you, step by step I will guide you and help you and do it today. Don’t worry

Participant: Yes Swami. And at the end stage of my life also I really don’t want any kind of incompletions

Swamiji: Don’t worry. Once I finish this process today I give you commitment whenever wherever you die I will be there to liberate you.

Participant: Thank you so much Swami thank you so much