What Happens When We Die?🔗

Now, let us look into the mystery of death, which is truly the greatest mystery. Can anybody speak about death? In Tamil, there is a proverb, 'Those who have seen death have never come back.' Those who have come back have not seen it. No one can speak about death except an enlightened man. He is authorized since he has already undergone the death experience. He is dead. Unless we undergo death, we can never get enlightened, we can never get liberated. The mysteries of death can never be recorded or proved logically. They can never be reduced to facts and figures. They are such personal experiences, that only a few enlightened masters have spoken about them. Unfortunately, they have no certificates. God has not created a university or industry for enlightenment. Only a few who have had the experience share their views with others. Only a few who felt the energy of the master could take advantage of this science. That is why the mystery of death is unknown to most people.

This science can transform our lives. As we have not understood this mystery, we have missed so many things in life. The secret of death is not a very popular concept in the West because it can never be proved scientifically. Today, a lot of scientists and psychologists are researching accounts of NDE's (Near Death Experiences). Thousands of people have experienced it. There is even a website which gives the experiences of nearly people. We will be surprised to know that all their experiences are similar. Hypnotherapists adopt the regression method to know more about the past lives of the patients. Patients are hypnotized and taken back in life and lives, often resulting in information on past lives, how they enter into the body, and how and when they leave the body. We will see that the findings are very similar to what the Upanishads say about death. So now, this science is spreading in the West too.

What happens after death? We need a little bit of mental preparation before we can go in depth into this subject. Whatever I have spoken so far is only to prepare us, to bring us to a mental level

from where we can understand what I am going to say. I promise you that what I am going to narrate about my experiences is the truth and the absolute truth. It matches the findings of the rishis, hypnotherapists, psycho-analysts and doctors. I developed that personal experience into a formula that will help people to overcome the pain at the time of their transition.

This is how this formula happened to me; this formula is behind the Nithyananda Spurana Program (NSP). I am trying to transmit and reproduce my experience as a master, just like a scientist develops formulae to reproduce the external truths that he observes.

I was in Varanasi, which is a sort of headquarters of Hinduism. Hindus are enjoined to visit Varanasi at least once in a life-time to wash away their sins by bathing in the sacred river Ganga that flows through this city. I was caring for an elderly monk of a particular religious order, who was sick. He was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and I was sitting by his bedside.

This happened before my enlightenment experience. There was another person in that ICU ward who was dying. I could see the struggle of the soul leaving the body. The body was in tremendous pain, as if a knife was ripping across its entire length, as if a thousand scorpions were stinging him. The pain was so palpable that I wanted to run away from there; I could hardly watch. Suddenly, the being fell into coma; coma is a pain-killer; it is an automatic mechanism of the mind for the body to stop feeling the pain, that unbearable pain.

When I saw that being suffer, it seemed to last only for a few minutes, but for that being, it was eternal. The pain of that being remained with me; I too was suffering. I watched, but I could not do anything. The monk I was attending to recovered. A year after this incident, I became enlightened.

I traveled down to South Bharat after my experience. Two years later, I was again in an ICU healing a disciple. This time too, another person was dying at a bed nearby. I saw that person die even as I was healing my disciple. I felt the pain starting; I wanted to run; but now instead of this being falling into coma and unconsciousness unable to bear the pain, it went into deep awareness - super consciousness! It was floating from one energy layer to the next and finally disappeared into bliss.

I asked the family of the dead man whether he was a very spiritual man, whether he was a great meditator, whether he was enlightened. They said no. He was a non-believer, an atheist, and not even remotely religious. I wondered how he could have had such a blissful death? How? Why? For this being, death was not an ordeal; it was a blessing. Why then did the other soul suffer a year back? I contemplated, I meditated. Suddenly, the knowledge that descended on me was the knowledge of what I now teach at the NSP. It is a science, a technology that arose from the experience of these two deaths.

All suffering is caused by memories of desires, the unfulfilled desires accumulated over births in our body, mind and spirit. NSP makes the inner space pure and clean; it dissolves all memories. It helps the the spirit leave peacefully, blissfully. Death becomes liberation and a celebration for one without memories.

When we leave the body, we cross seven different layers of our body: the physical, pranic, mental, subtle, causal, spiritual and finally nirvanic. As soon as we leave the body, as the spirit leaves the physical layer, we undergo a tremendous, unmanageable pain. A small cut in your hand gives you so much pain. Can you imagine what the pain will be when your whole body, your consciousness from head to toe is torn? The pain will be similar to the pain that one will undergo when stung by ten thousand scorpions at once! A little meditation while we are living, will help us have a painless transition. It can heal and guide us at the time of passing away.

We must know the depth of the problem; otherwise, we will not go for the solution. When death happens, our consciousness will be torn from the body. There will be severe pain. Immediately, we will go into coma. Doctors say that coma is an automatic mechanism to combat the pain. It is automatic anesthesia. That is why, every ordinary men fall into coma before they leave the body. Only enlightened masters have conscious deaths. There is no need for them to go into a coma. Many enlightened masters have passed away in the sitting posture. Paramahamsa Yogananda was one of them.

Next, in the pranic space, our desires want to possess our body, but time refuses to allow them to do so. It is time to leave and move to the next body. In the struggle between our desires and time, it is time that wins. Like this, step by step we move into different spaces and enter the next body. We enter into another body in 3 kshanas (*kshana* is defined as the time between two thoughts).

As long as we are in this body, we see the whole world in four dimensions. We have seen movies in three dimensions where we feel that we are a part of the scene. But in 4D movies, they also make us experience it by rocking our chairs and causing some special effects at the physical level! For example, if we are sitting and there is an earthquake being shown, we will not just be watching it but we will also experience it! When we are in this body, the outer world is exciting and colorful; meditation and spirituality take the back-seat. They don't seem important or necessary. We feel that these can wait. But the moment we leave the body and start travelling inside, the outwardly trip becomes inconsequential and meditation and other spiritual interests become more important and enjoyable. As long as we are in this physical body, we continuously chase material things to make our lives comfortable.

People come and tell me that they don't have time for meditation. I tell them to take back their words. Be honest and accept that you don't have the interest. At least be clear to yourself that your priority is not meditation. Our aim is to make more money, and make our life comfortable. Be honest to yourself about it. Our money and status, our social life, will not contribute to anything when we leave the body. Remember that.