PREPARING FOR THE LAST MOMENT

Every day we pass through a short death in the form of our sleep. Sleep and death are not too different. The only difference between the two is that sleep is a short death and death is a long sleep. Except that both are same. In both the cases the being (chitta) is not lost and hence you wake up again, for sure. After sleep, you wake up in the same body but after death you wake up in a new body. The sleep falls between the two waking states and death falls between two births. The last thought will be your first thought as you wake up from sleep – you can try this tonight and see it for yourself. Similarly, the last thought at the time of death will determine the quality of your next birth. Sleep is unconsciousness and death too is unconsciousness. We never come to know as when we entered into sleep because we fall unconscious before sleep and the same unconsciousness will happen to a man before his death. He will never come to know as when he entered into death as he never comes to know as when he entered into sleep. 

It’s worth knowing that sleep is our natural state. Because in sleep nothing exists except the existence which is our reality. There is no body-consciousness; no mind; no individuality (ego) and not even the world exists for us. In sleep we are one with the existence. Though what that exists in sleep is our reality but the unfortunate thing about sleep is that it all happens in unconsciousness. We are not aware during our sleep. We are not able to maintain our awareness during sleep. If the sleep could happen in awareness then you will usher into a new reality which we know as self-realization. You will come awake. That‘s the reason that meditation which is a sadhana for awakening has to begin during the waking hours. 

How one should prepare for the death? By changing the course of life i.e. committing yourself to live life consciously, to live life in full awareness. Conscious living means you live each moment of your life in Self-remembrance. Self-remembrance is to remember all the time that you are not a body, you are not a mind but a witnessing consciousness. Witnessing is not doing. Witnessing is also not seeing. Witnessing (sakshi) is just being i.e. simply remaining present to all the happenings in and around you. Presence is pure awareness. Presence is transforming. Thus, you use every breath as a stepping stone to become more conscious. None of your actions – physical and mental – goes unaware. This is how you gather consciousness (sajagata) because consciousness breeds consciousness and unconsciousness (behoshi) brings in more unconsciousness. If you are conscious in this moment, then you will enter next moment too in consciousness. Similarly if you are unconscious in this moment, you will enter next moment too in unconsciousness because the next moment comes out of this moment. 

As you become more and more conscious, slowly and slowly, consciousness will spill into your sleep as well and a moment will come when you will be able to enter sleep consciously. If you can enter your sleep consciously you will also enter your death consciously. Entering death consciously means dying in full awareness. When the moment comes you do your death also as you do other things in life like eating; walking etc. If you can embrace death in full awareness then this game of life is over for you, once for all. Because whatever you become conscious or aware of, you transcend that. Conscious death is going beyond death which is a release from the cycle of death and birth. 

Forgetfulness, as opposed to remembrance, is unconsciousness which is to forget the truth (Self) and living life in untruth (as an ego). Ego means living life in identification with the body-mind. This is how the cycle is never broken.  Unconsciousness comes for free because you are born unconscious but the consciousness has to be earned by striving. Only if you become conscious then only you can do your death consciously when the moment comes. Because it cannot happen that you live your whole life in unconsciousness and yet you expect to remain conscious at the last moment. That is not the way of the existence. 

The death exists only for those who live their life in unawareness. They will be born again to die again. But those who commit to live their life in awareness then there is no death for them. Though when the time comes their bodies too will fall but they will have no reason to comeback. Because you become what you are identified with. If you identify with the body, you get another body because death is of the body. But those who identify with that which is transcendental, will go beyond death. They will merge with existence. Hence, if you want to experience death then become conscious in this moment because last moment will not be any different from this moment. Hence, start preparing now by practicing consciousness. 

Meditation is a method to become conscious and thus to prepare for the last moment. Meditation is pure awareness; pure witnessing; just presence. Meditation is distancing from that which is not ‘you’ i.e. body and mind and being established in awareness which is real ‘you’. That’s what ‘sanyasa’ is. Sanyasa is not leaving something on the outside. Sanyasa is distancing from that or leaving that which is not your reality.

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  1. UnknownMay 2, 2021 at 9:59 PM

    Really it is true to be always cautious towards Self,this pratice will be in theform of peace in Soul.Itis salvation in true sense.

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