SPIRITUALITY MEANS, DOING YOUR OWN DEATH

Do you know what death is? I’m talking about natural death i.e. the death which happens of its own accord because of age. Death is a very painful process. Why this is so? Let me explain. Right now, when you are alive, your consciousness or chetana, because of which you are alive, is spread all over your body. Because your chetana is spread all over your body and hence your whole body is functioning and that’s why the feeling of pain whenever the body is hurt. We all know that, if chetana is not there in a certain part of the body then, in that part, we don’t feel any pain even if there is some injury in that place. Now, just before your natural death, what happens is that, this consciousness or chetana is removed and separated from your body and this separation of body from chetana is what we know as death and that’s why we can dare to burn that body in the fire because there is no chetana or consciousness in that body now. You cannot dare to burn someone who is still alive i.e. one who is full of consciousness because doing that would be a murder. 

So, before natural death, the nature does this job of separation for you which is extremely painful because the consciousness which is stuck to your body, is removed from the whole body, so as to be declared as dead. Because this process of separation is extremely painful and hence usually what happens is that immediately before death, the nature makes the person unconscious and this whole process of separation of energy from the body, thus, happens in total unconsciousness. That’ exactly is the reason that, one never knows as when he entered his death, as one never knows, as when he entered his sleep. Sleep and death are the same because both are nothing but unconsciousness with a difference that, death is a long sleep, whereas sleep is a short death. 

Now, we need to understand that, nature doing death for you is of no help because nature’s doing is nothing but just a continuity of the game of life. Nature does it for your because you are not doing it by yourself. If you can take charge i.e. become conscious enough so as to be able to do your own death then there is no death for you because whatever you do in full consciousness, you go beyond that. We need to remember that one can be in this body because of vasanas or desires only. These vasanas act as a glue (gond) between the energy and the body and that is how this glue of vasanas keep this energy stuck to this body. Now, if you can consciously dissolve or melt this glue of vasanas then, this energy which right now is stuck to this body will start separating itself. Once this glue of vasanas is fully dissolved or melted then, this energy can no longer remain tied or stuck to this body. 

That’s why the spirituality and that is what spirituality is. Spirituality is nothing but to set this melting process in motion so as to be able to die a conscious death. A spiritual person is one, who does not want to leave anything to the nature but wants to do everything himself, including his death and that is what being conscious is. Being conscious or being spiritual means, you take charge of all those things or functions which currently are being done, for you, by the nature.

Only, if you can do your death consciously i.e. on your own then this game of life is over for you, once and for all because, entering death or dying consciously is going beyond physicality. Entering death consciously is becoming fully conscious or merging into the source or the existence and thus going beyond this physical existence which we know as nirvana or moksha. That’s what meditation is. Meditation is nothing but setting this process of separating your energy, from this body, in motion and thus gradually and slowly dissolving the glue of vasanas totally.