What is Death?

When the word Death is heard, a lot of thoughts and emotions immediately come into our minds. Most of us feel fear, sadness, and loss or just simply have a sense of uneasiness come to us. Why is that? Could it be because we were taught from birth that death meant something other than what it is? That when we can no longer see someone or something, that it is dead? Non-existent? Where did this word death come from? If God created all, would he allow his creations to become non-existent? Dead? If God is Love, would He create something just to have it become non-existent in a very short period of time? After all, how could Love create death?

In our world here on earth, everything has its opposite. Happy and sad, rich and poor, light and dark, strong and weak. There is even an opposite of our true selves; Spirit and Ego. If you will notice, one part of an opposite is Positive, and the other is Negative. One part is good and the other is bad. We would always prefer the positive over the negative or the good over the bad. We would surely choose Life over Death. So where did these opposites come from? Did God create them? Or did we.

When we were created, we were created in the likeness of God. If God is all Love, then we were created as Love. An opposite did not exist. But God also created us as Free Will creatures. Free Will against what? He created us with Free Will against ourselves. He gave us Free Will to believe in our true selves (Spirit) but we chose to create an illusion self (Ego). God is Love and therefore does not make his children do or think anything. It is our choice. As we grew and experimented, we began to have more faith in what we could see. What we could not see simply did not exist. We chose appearances. We became more physical than intuitional. We became so out-of-touch with God and his Love, that we began to experience hardships. At this time we created our own God, the Ego. If you can understand this, then you will begin to see that all of the negative opposites were also created by us. All of our hardships were created by us. They are all illusions. They are not real, and that includes the Ego.

If we can understand that God is Love, and Love is positive, then the negative opposites must be NOT real. The opposites of Love such as hate, dark, fear, weak, and evil must be illusions that were made up by us as a coping mechanism to weigh against our hardships. The more that we chose appearances over our intuition, the farther away we became from the Truth. But we will never forget the Truth. We will always know right from wrong, good from bad, light from darkness. Our true self (Spirit) will never die to the illusion self (Ego), because there is no death. We will always sense the Spirit and strive for positive qualities because that's who we are. We are God's spiritual children.

So, what is death? Death must also be an illusion made up by us through fear of choosing wrong. Death is not real and is also a negative opposite that we created. It does not and cannot exist for anything. Nothing dies. The concept of death became a belief to us because our true source could not be seen and therefore did not exist. We viewed a body that no longer breathed and through our limited thinking, called this death. As soon as we can begin to accept ourselves as Spirit and a part of the unseen, the sooner we will be able to shed the illusions that we have created. What is Death? Death is nothing. There is only Life.

We die every night, every night we go to sleep, and get up in the morning in a new life. This is also a type of death. We wander here and there, see many thing in dream, miraculous scene and then in the morning we find our self in the original shape. Death what we call, is we are in deep sleep and there will be a beginning of the next life.

The moments of death

How does one die? In this context Indian Yogis (saints) having paranormal perception hold the view that for a short duration preceding death, man experiences a great deal of restlessness, pain and writhing. There are a few reasons for this phenomenon. The event of death necessitates total withdrawal of the current of bio-energy (prana) प्राण from all over the body, which before death, is accumulated at that particular part of the body, through which the soul is about to make its exit (discussed later), whereas, because of prevailing disposition of biological functions, this current tends to flow back to respective neurons.

The impact of this struggle creates the agony or the spasm at the moment of death. The other reasons for the misery proceeding the moment of death are diseases, shock or other physiological factors rendering the body unfit for retention of soul. Whether or not the dying person is able to express, the being does suffer for a few moments before death. However, soon thereafter, the person falls into a kind of coma and the soul departs in this state of unconsciousness. When death becomes imminent, all external functional powers of man become introverted and then cumulatively escape along with the soul through any exit in the physical body.

The Yogis योगी of the West are of the view that the subtle body of the being comes out of the body as a violet shadow, whereas the Indian spiritual Masters see it as a brilliant white aura akin to luminescence of a burning lamp escaping at the moment of death। Because of cumulative withdrawal, all forgotten memories of life lying buried and dormant in the finer cells of brain are stimulated and revived. This phenomenon proves the extraordinary capability of human mind, when the dying person relives all experiences of life in a short moment like a playback of a cine-film, whereas while living it is impossible to remember even fifty percent of life’s events in a long time. Each activity of a person, whether mental, verbal or physical, leaves an imprint on the soul.

The sum and substance of these events, a deed accompanies the soul as its sanskaras (intrinsic mental and emotional impressions) at the time of its departure from the physical body. In this process, it is said, one feels unimaginable pain, like that inflicted by a thousand scorpion bites. While looking at the activities of bygone human existence the soul feels extremely miserable- because the soul feels extremely repentant for not having utilized life’s precious moments fruitfully.

As mentioned earlier, the body becomes insensitive to all feelings of pain and disease much before death when the energy of sense-perception becomes introverted. Thus all sufferings of the body end before death. The bond between the body and soul with diseases, shock or old age begins to loosen. The fruit drops to the ground when it is ripened and its stem is unable to bear its weight. In the same manner, in the normal course, an individual dies when the body and its functional capabilities loosen their grip on the soul. The soul generally departs through the apertures in the upper part of the body, principally from the mouth, eyes, ears or nostrils. Souls of sinners have been found to exit through the anus or organs of sex. The soul of a Yogi योगी leaves through the Brahmarandhra ब्रह्मरंध (near top of the cranium).