silence shared in words
presents
Is it possible to die consciously?
Is it possible to die consciously without being enlightened?
Existence
follows certain laws
and there are no exceptions.
If one wants to die consciously,
the only way
is to be enlightened.
Death is such a great surgery:
your soul is being taken apart
from the body
and mind,
with
which it has been
involved
for seventy or eighty years.
Even for a
small operation
you need anesthesia;
and this is the greatest operation in existence.
Unconsciousness is nothing but
nature's way of
giving you anesthesia.
Unless you are completely
unidentified with body and mind,
you cannot die
consciously
and a death
which is not conscious
is a great opportunity missed.
Enlightenment is an
absolute necessity.
Enlightenment only means
that your whole being is conscious:
there are no dark corners left inside you.
Dying in such consciousness
the body,
the mind,
the brain
can be taken away from you,
because you know now
not just as a theory,
but as your
authentic experience
that you have always been separate.
The involvement with the body
was broken
the day you became enlightened.
In the ancient scriptures
of the Buddhists,
enlightenment is called
the "great death"
not that you are going to die,
but the death is great
because you will be able to see it happening,
you will be a witness.
Now you are no longer attached to the body,
no clinging,
and you have become aware of your immortality.
You can die consciously only
when you know that you are
immortal,
that you belong to eternity,
not to time;
that deep within you
is the beginning of existence
and the end of existence
if there is any beginning
or if there is any end.
In fact
there is no beginning
and no end;
you have always been here,
and you will always be here.
A conscious death
is one of the miracles
of life,
because after that you will not be born again
in any form
as a man, as a bird, as a tree.
You will remain
in the eternal consciousness of the universe,
spread all over the ocean.
Hence, it has been called the "great death."
But there are no
exceptions.
Existence
follows
absolutely definite laws,
and this is
a law
of the highest order,
because it concerns your consciousness,
your life, your death.
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