Words from the Master

Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi got his enlightenment through a conscious experience of death.

When Ramana was a young boy, one day he was just lying on his bed in his uncle’s house in Madurai in India.

Suddenly he got the feeling that he was going to die! He felt that death was coming upon him.

He had two choices – either to resist the feeling, or to accept it and go through it.
Usually people resist, so they pass into coma and leave the body in a state of unconsciousness.

99% of us leave the body in a state of unconsciousness.

Though we know from the moment of birth that our life will culminate in death, we never try to visualize it, we never try to actualize the possibility, we never try to welcome it.

At least once if you go through it with consciousness, you will lose your fear for it automatically.

Ramana was courageous enough to choose the second path. He co-operated with the feeling.

He allowed death to happen. He decided to see what would happen during death.
He saw clearly one by one, the parts of his body dying.

Slowly, his whole body was dead. He saw his body turn into ashes.

Suddenly he realized that something remained even after that; something which cannot be destroyed. It hit him that he was pure Consciousness at that time, beyond the beyond and mind. He was simply a witness to the whole thing!

That knowledge was tremendous and it never left him and when he came back into his body, he was Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi – an enlightened Master.

When you conquer the fear of death, you conquer death itself, because death is just one more imagination! Just as in the Muladhara chakra, our greed makes us imagine the world to be more beautiful than it actually is, here our fear makes us imagine death to be more frightening than it actually is.

We wear glasses of greed and fear, which don’t allow us to see reality. When you experience death psychologically, you release the energy that has been locked in the Swadhishtana due to death-fear; when the Swadhishtana opens, the whole quality of life changes.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.