Death

 Hi Folks!

How are you and how's life?

Let's talk about something that we worry about since the moment we become aware of it, try not to think of it, and usually allow ourselves to be controlled by it.

Death.

Anything that we don't know about, makes us nervous.

Scares us.

We were meandering through our lives with the usual excitement,  procrastinations, rat race, addictions, greed, jealousy, enjoyment, travel, philosophies, spirits, and our special brands of spirituality.

Then Corona quietly eased into our lives, the world over, and suddenly death was a scary prospect too close for comfort.

By now everyone has been touched by the death of one or more people related or known to us who have died of it.

Ignorance is bliss only when you are ready to undergo the consequences without complaining loudly when they hammer with full force.

It's not Corona that we need to know everything about. That information keeps changing all the time.

It is death that we need to investigate, examine and comprehend.

Focussing only on the present life with indifference towards what caused it to be the way it is, is ignorance.

Not trying to know more about the larger picture is stupidity.

This is a land where Karma holds a powerful sway. everybody will swear they believe in it to some or full extent.

They will give lectures, take workshops, talk, write, sing, cry, donate millions - the whole works.

But if Karma is the fruit of what you personally have sown a seed of somewhere in the past, whether good or bad, why aren't you careful about your thoughts and actions?

There is horrendous greed, hatred, cruelty as if it is a birthright. Is this karma of yours not going to come back to you?

It doesn't care whether you believe in it or not. Nobody will - or can save you.

I have been a Past Life Regression Therapist for about a dozen years now. 

Many clients have seen themselves being extremely devoted, pious, also fanatical, non-believers in god and after-life and rebirth.

They belonged to different religions which claim there is no rebirth. I have seen mine too, in such religions and tribes in previous times.

After their deaths, none of their gods or ideologies - whether, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhists, Jews, atheists - no one and nothing had saved them from the consequences of their evil actions.

In the session, they went to the situation when they had hurt or harmed, killed, looted, raped and got away in that life, but were suffering tremendously now.

So what is death?

It is an equalizer for all.

But it is also just going home, your real home, from this residential school called earth where you have come to learn to be humane but mess up big time with your greed and hatred and false beliefs.

I did some sessions for some people who wanted to meet those who had died in the pandemic.

Their death had been sudden, the families had been unprepared, unable to get over the shock.

I called the departed ones - a wife, a husband, a son - who ever it is they want to meet.

After they spoke and felt the touch and the tears had subsided a little, I asked, ' had you planned your life before taking birth? these particular parents / wife / husband etc.'?

Yes, they had.

But why had they died so soon? And what about Corona?

'This is just a nimitta. A reason.

'My life with them was only up to this point. I might have died of a fever or an accident'.

But how are they going to cope?

'This is also part of the planning. They need to take charge of their own lives, be calmer, not helpless, scared and dependent'.

I will surely not make sweeping statements based on the experiences of a handful of people.

There could be those who need not have died, and whoever was responsible, who had given wrong medicines, harmed for money, have created immense bad karma for themselves which is going to hit back equally forcefully in the next, or even current life for having killed those who need not have died.

Before taking birth, we plan our lives, who will be there, who will leave when, the impact on us and the lessons we have to learn in coping and moving forward.

Be aware.

Be kindful, more compassionate.

You only receive what you give out.

Or have given out.

Consciously remove the blinkers of money, power, indifference, cruelty, fanaticism … the list is long.

Death has had to force itself on your consciousness to make you aware of the qualities you need to cultivate in yourself.

It is not to be feared, it is a teacher to be respected.

It teaches you how to live.

Sit quietly by yourself for a while and let your breathing, your thoughts slow down.

Call your dear one who has died.

Thank them for being in your life.

Speak and finish any unfinished topic that is hurting or bothering you.

Ask for forgiveness, forgive them.

Don't blame them. It was a mutual decision and ask them to watch over you once in a while.

Let them go.

One day, when you die, you will meet all those who have died before you.

Bye for now.

Meditate.