Suryanarayana Raju: Self-inquiry is the way to go beyond the concept of death

Body is a flux,continuously changing,moving.It has nothing of eternal in it.If you are identified with the body through 'I" thought ofcourse the fear of death will be constantly there.You can live but you can live only in fear.

In fact, the body is dying every moment.The body dies every day.Death is a process.Death is not an event; it is a long process.By and by, the body comes to a point where it cannot hold itself.

It disintegrates.How can one live? How can one celebrate? How can one dance and sing and be? Impossible.The death won’t allow it. The death is too much and too close.

So Bhagawan faced this fact of fear there and then when he had intense death fear at the age of 16 in Madurai.He has great Sankalpa bala.He felt now this body is dead,it will be taken for cremation to the burial ground.

With the death of the body am i dead ? His body is really dead and developed
Rigor mortis.But he observed that his awareness survived the death of the body.
So he existentially came to know that his essential nature is awareness but not
the body-mind complex with which we are identified with and feel that we are that
body-mind complex.

What Bhagawan did is real Self-inquiry.Death is a concept of "I" thought.In death of physical body "I" thought becomes fearful of losing identity with the body and feels "I am dying".So death is concept of "I" thought.

In Self-inquiry we witness everything consciously.That which is witnessed is not you.
You are the witnessor.So the world of objects,body,mind is not you.One who is capable of witnessing life is also capable of witnessing death.

In death your awareness don't die,the awareness that is imprisoned in body-mind complex is released.If you don't die rightly i.e if you don't achieve the total orgasm that death is,you will be born again you missed it and you have to be given another opportunity.

A life of awareness is a real life.A life of mind is a dead life.The one who identifies with the mind thinks continuously,brooding,playing with words.Life is an opportunity to be here and now but he always thinks of somewhere else.

This is utopia which means "that which never comes".Movement of mind is just an animation of the contents of the mind on the background of screen of awareness.We are identified with the animation and we completely forgot the screen of awareness.

To shift our attention from this animation to the screen of awareness Self-inquiry is the way.If we don't give energy to this animated movement by just being aware of it like a mirror,the movement of the mind stops.

In Self-inquiry which is done with awareness we no longer give energy to such outgoing mind and so the awareness is not directed and so there is no apparent movement of it through mind,awareness falls on itself and when this happens for the first time we taste the nature of life and we receive something unknown,unbelievable,unexpected,never even dreamed of and we don't feel like leaving that state like Bhagawan.

It is so blissful,tranquil,serene,without any pain,sorrow,limitation.This light of awareness is called Purusha by Hindus.The word Purusha means the dawn in the city(body-mind complex filled with the light of awareness),he who is filled with light,he who is filled with wisdom and eternal happiness,a citizen of heaven.

It can be also pronounced as Pu rhusha which means whose passions are purified
and who has become deathless.All these qualities are there in Bhagawan and he is
the Purusha mentioned in Bhagawad Gita.Our material nature is body-mind complex(Prakruti) in which light of Purusha is reflected and makes our material nature to get animated.

Our essential nature is Purusha which can be discovered through Self-inquiry like Bhagawan.We just forgot our nature of Purusha due to superimposition of our material nature on Purusha.This is due to the defect of superimposition(Adhyasa).To claim back our Purushahood which is our essential nature and which is birthless and deathless, Self-inquiry is the way.

There is death only to our material nature of body-mind complex when the energy of reflection of Purusha is withdrawn from it.Death can exist only in the ignorance of what life is and we taste life which is existence plus awareness i.e Pure awareness,
Purusha, in Self-inquiry.

So in Self-inquiry we go beyond the concept of death because we go beyond the the concept of "I" thought and we attain to the state of immortality.This is Asatoma Sadgamaya,Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya,Mrutyorma amrutangamaya.So let us practice Self-inquiry sincerely and attain to this eternal state of being.

About the Author

Sri Suryanarayana Raju is interested in Self-Enquiry in the light of Sri Ramana Maharshi,Osho,JK.He wrote two books on "Self-Enquiry" and "Commented on Upadesa Saram and Akshara Mana Malai". available for download at http://www.esnips.com/ web/ramana-maharshi

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