Tradition holds on to this idea so strongly that even after death
even when the body is totally burnt and some parts of the skull remain
they will smash it.
And they smash it in such a way
that the soul gets to leave from this twelfth or the Brahmarandhra chakra
But this is inhuman, this is violent
Aren’t you all fascinated by this question,
“What happens after death?
What becomes of me?”
Don't we also ponder, “What was I before I was born?”
So, somewhere I must have died in the past.
So, when I die now, I will become someone, something
And this circle goes on and on and on unless, of course
this new mechanism which yogis have invented
from their experiences they have claimed that there is a state
that of liberation or moksha.
And what happens to our individual soul that is liberated?
Does it mean that it will not be incarnated again? Not really.
True liberation is where you have total freedom,
absolute freedom of being born again, or not
You may choose to be born, or you may choose not to be born again, you see
Time is a big thing. In the Gita, Lord Krishna says, “Kalosmi”, meaning, “I am Time.”
Time creates and Time alone kills. This is the inevitable law of Time
What happens at the moment of death? It is worth exploring
When death is about to come,
first of all, the element of earth is withdrawn from the Basic plexus
You call this plexus as Mooladhara Chakra.
And once this earth element is withdrawn from Mooladhara Chakra
it moves up to Swadhishtana Chakra, Hypogastric plexus
This is the place of the water element
The earth element is then converted into water
Hands and feet, they become cold. Have you not felt this when someone is dying?
someone is dying? You will notice that the hands and feet will become cold
This is the dissolution of water
Then, when water
is withdrawn from the Hypogastric plexus or Swadhishtana Chakra,
and is accumulated here at the Solar plexus, in the region of our navel or Nabhi Chakra
it then becomes fire
The region above the navel, it will become warmer. This is the dissolution of fire
Then the fire is gradually withdrawn and moves upwards to Cardiac plexus Anahat Chakra or Hrudaya Chakra
where it meets the air, mixes with the air from the heart region and the whole body begins to tremble.
This is the dissolution of the air element.
After that, the air of the Cardiac plexus is withdrawn to the ether element
and it somehow
dissolves the element which is present
at the Kantha Chakra or the Pharyngeal plexus
There, a sound is produced at the Vishuddhi Chakra
Once this sound is produced what happens is that the soul
takes an exit either through the eyes
or through the ears, or through the mouth and the eyes are turned backward.
Now the element of Brahm which is found in the individual soul is also withdrawn
This is at this point precisely, the eyes, they turn back and now
they merge in the Virat element. If the soul is liberated,
then mixing with the Virat element becomes possible after exiting from Brahmarandhra
which is from the back, where generally,
you know, you must have seen elderly people of the bygone days used to keep a choti
or a ponytail at the back. Exactly there, the Brahmarandhra is there
Liberated souls, they exit from this particular point
Unfortunately,
Tradition holds on to this idea so strongly that even after death
even when the body is totally burnt and some parts of the skull remain
they will smash it.
And they smash it in such a way
that the soul gets to leave from this twelfth or the Brahmarandhra chakra
But this is inhuman, this is violent
Liberated soul does not need such a blow from heavy instruments
It just evaporates, it just transcends automatically, at that very moment of death
and mixes or merges with the Virat, Virat element.
So this is, in brief, what really happens at the moment of death. Depending upo
the vibratory level of our atman, if it is Satvik
there too, there is a
whole spectrum of Satvikta.
If it is Tamasik
there is a spectrum of Tamasikta
And if it is Rajasik
there is also a spectrum, to what extent it is
Tamasik, or Rajasik, or Satvik and combination of it all
there are infinite possibilities and accordingly there are infinite dimension
So, based on the vibratory level of the soul,
it will reach out to that dimension which is compatible with that vibration.
Nowhere else will it go. The whole process is reversed when we incarnate.