My sannyasins celebrate death too
because to me death is not the end of life but the very crescendo of life
presents
Yes, We Celebrate Death Too a new way of celebrating the end of life
Whenever somebody dies
somebody you have known, loved, lived with
somebody who has somehow become a part of your being
something in you also dies
Life has to be lived to be known
it has been given to you to live
it is a gift of nature to you
It is not a punishment.
It is simply a gift from existence, rejoice in it
and burn your life’s candle from both the ends together
Live as intensely as possible
and the very taste of life
will give you the clue
why death is not to be feared
In my religion
death is celebrated because there is no death
Let this be a send-off of dancing, celebration,
festivity.
Dance as much as you can.
Let your whole energy become a dance.
Dance to orgasm,
forget yourself completely.
When you are happy
and bubbling with some unknown joy,
then your eyes are clear;
then they have a clarity.
And for this moment, deep clarity is needed,
so that you can see the body burning on the funeral pyre,
and you can also see
the spirit moving away.
If you dance,
and happily, gracefully, sing
it will be difficult I know
but not as difficult as you think.
Once you do it, by and by you will feel that it comes easy.
It is a moment of rejoicing
when you say good-bye to him on a funeral pyre...
When you have lived in your body for so many years
there arises naturally a certain attachment to the body.
But when the consciousness sees the body burning
with the body burning, all your attachments with the body,
all your
prisons that have
taken you to many bodies in many lives,
start disappearing.
One feels a tremendous freedom
rising with the flames towards the sky.
Rejoice, and dance, and celebrate.
Such a death is rare.
Very few human beings are so blessed.
Even small kids, if they want to go, take them with you.
Let them also face the truths.
And when the
funeral pyre’s flames start moving upwards,
remember why
in this country for thousands of years
we have chosen
not to bury the dead,
but to give them to fire.
There is a special reason for it.
The fire is the only thing you know which does not allow any gravitation.
It always goes upwards.
The fire is a symbol of your spirituality; it always goes upwards.
You see flames, and soon they disappear.
They are visible only for a few moments,
then they become invisible.
Fire is a great symbol
of purification,
of detachment,
of rising vertically towards the ultimate space
which is our home,
we come from there, and we go back there.
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