It is a scary experience. The first reaction of the passengers usually is to grab their seats tight, some of them fasten their seat belts and some even put on the oxygen mask. But then, would it prevent the plane from crashing? Or would it save them in the event the plane crashes? No.
You have boarded the plane and are now moving with the energy of it. The control over the plane is not in your hands, you are a mere passenger.
No matter what your social status, how many assets and wealth you possess or how good you look, you cannot save the body or the physical assets.
What should you do then, when you realise the plane is crashing? People tell me, will you pray for it not to crash? Maybe your prayers get answered and the plane does not crash that once. But then, how many times and for how long may this work?
The physical is temporary, it is bound to go. There is no one I know, who had been able to hold onto anything they collected. The plane has to crash some day. You, however, need not crash... yoga, under a guru, is the path to that.
The reason you panic is because you are body-conscious and because of the impressions of past experiences of the deaths in your previous births, which flash before your eyes as the plane crashes. It is the fear of what awaits on the other side of life, the pain and trauma you will have to go through, to pay back for all that you did while you were on the plane.
Plane crash does not literally mean a plane crash. It is indicative of death which is around the corner.
You need not wait for the plane to crash to know where you are headed. There are specific kriyas in Sanatan Kriya through which you can get the experience beforehand.
A student of mine reported seeing people burning in boiling oil, and people with strange looking insects all over them… and this is just the beginning for those who spend their entire life living for the self (which they understand as the body), turning their face away from the pain and misery of fellow beings and creation at large.
You either move up in creation or you move down, you can never be stationary. This applies to all aspects of life—health, finances, relationships and even spiritual evolution.
Even if today you have all that you desire, it won’t last for long. Yet, you keep chasing it because your consciousness is limited to the body and the five senses.
You neither know nor have experienced the realms beyond, which exist (sadhaks in Dhyan Ashram are living testimony to the fact) and it is these realms that control and govern the physical body.
When you take the body to be the finality, you panic in a crashing plane. If, at that time, you take your awareness to the sushumna nadi and focus on Shiv at the agya, you will not die; you will merge back into the source.
The writer is the spiritual head of Dhyan Foundation.
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