Stupid Gurus.
The mind is the cycle of births and deaths.~Raman Maharshi.
Osho says:
"Nothing is ever born and nothing ever dies. Things only move between manifestation and unmanifestation. They become visible, they become invisible. To become invisible is a resting place. Just as after each day you need deep sleep in the night to rejuvenate you,to make you again young and fresh, in the same way after each life you need death.
Death is a deeper sleep and nothing else. After each life your body is so tired, you need a new body, a new manifestation. The old wave disappears, but the water in that wave remains in the ocean; it will come again in a new wave. The old is continuously becoming new--allow it. Simply allow life and go with it in deep trust.
The awareness of death makes you live life totally, as joyously, as possible. Death is not your enemy. In fact, it is an invitation for you to live intensely, totally to squeeze every drop of juice from every moment. Death is tremendous challenge and invitation.
Death gives you the ultimate in orgasmic joy: the body is left behind forever and your being become one with the whole. It is immeasurable. To become one with a single person gives you so much joy, just think: how much joy will happen in becoming one with the infinite! But it does not happen to everybody who dies, because the people who have not lived rightly cannot die rightly either. The people who have lived in deep unconsciousness will die in deep unconsciousness. Death will give you only that which you have lived all your life; it is the essence of your wole life.
If your life was of meditativeness, awareness, witnessing, then you will be able to witness death too. If your whole life you remained cool, centered in different situations, death will give you the ultimate challenge, the ultimate test. And if you can remain centered, calm and cool and watching, then you will not die an unconscious death, your death will bring you to the ultimate peak of consciousness. And then, certainly, it has to be celebrated.
Yes, my sannyasins celebrate death because they celebrate life."
~Osho.
My observation:
Man is born with tendencies.The tendencies depend on how we are
conditioned.Till the tendencies are completely spent we require a
body for spending up of sanskaras(tendencies).Release from
tendencies is Moksha i.e liberation of consciousness which is
apparently imprisoned and limited by our tendencies.Our past lives,present one and the future ones are our own imaginations.
They are projection of contents of our own mind.Dream depends
upon the contents of the dreamer.If there are no residual tendencies there is no possibility of dream at all.Then we go beyond
cycle of birth and death because we no longer attach with body-mind complex and we stop imagining about ourselves.
The various concepts in various religions are due to their varied
imagination only.In essential terms we are never born and we
never incarnate.In deep sleep there is oneness of our being.
There is no concept of reincarnation,birth and death in that state.
Same is the experience in Samadhi state which happens in waking state.
We must be clear that there is no ending of life.Birth and death are
imaginary episodes in the eternity of life.
The question that when ultimate reality is one then why would my end of life experience be different.The answer is that there is
only ending of the "known" which does not amount to ending of life.
Why that experience is different.It is because you have unique
tendencies which no other being in existence have.
There are three defects in the mind of everybody:
1) Mala Dosha--Identity with the body and thinking that one is body
and when body dies they feel it is ending of life.
2)Avarana Dosha--Veiling the light of self and there is Self forgetfulness.
3) Vikshepa Dosha--Perceiving the veiled entity as multiplicity.
All these are due to action of Maya.
What i feel we gain nothing by thinking about what
happens to us after the death of the body.Every human has a
precious chance of observing his or her own mind in the mirror of
relationship in daily life and to observe the ways of our mind which
always takes us away from our source i.e Self.Once we know the
ways of working of our mind we will never go astray.We gain the
capacity to hold on to Self which is by nature blissful.I feel holding
on to Self is essential in life and better we are not distracted by
things like reincarnation which is in the field of imagination and is trivial and it deviates our mind from our life goal which is
Self realization.~Dr.Raju.
