7. Master, you talked about iourney of the soul. the various stages we go through at the time of death; is it not that we go through it at the time of meditation?🔗

Not only at the time of meditation but we ao through it at the time of sanyas as well. At the of sanyas, we go through a ritual of complete death. We are told to drop our past name and every thing else. related to the past: we have to live like ghosts for three days and three nights without. any identity, with out taking food. We have to live in the mashāna (graveyard) for three days with out eating; one can only smell, that is all, we cannot eat. After those three days, we are qiven new names, a new form and a new meditation technique called kavyastra.

At the time of death, at the of meditation and at the time of sanyas, we go through the same path; we under go the same transformation. In meditation one practically dies. It is nothing but taking a new birth. The mother carries you in bhugarbha, the teacher carries you in ariḍhgarbha and THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM carries vou in jñānagarbha giving you the birth. the spiritual realization. So you under go three different stages, first is bhugarbha, second is ariḍhgarbha and the third is jñānagarbha. In meditation, the jñānagarbha, you really take anew birth: you are no more same old person.