CHENNAI: What is death? What happens to us after death? Is there a coming back here? Will the process of death-birth-death end? Lord Krishna explains different types of liberation — the immediate and the step by step. The waker ‘I’ is the same as the dreamer ‘I’ and the deep sleeper ‘I’. The mind is not a container of thoughts. It is a flow. Every thought is momentary. Mind is also momentary.
We are happy occasionally. Most of the time we are either preparing or pretending to be happy. The art of dying is to prepare ourselves in this lifetime to kick the bucket of the ego. God plus ego is man. Man minus ego is god. Eradicate the ego through thinking about the Lord. Liberate the mind. If there is no knowledge of god, liberation of mind is not possible.
Lord says he who thinks of the Self at the moment of death reaches the Self. How can I think of the Self at the time of death? The Lord’s promise is if we begin in earnest and practice regularly, at the time of death, he will remind us to think of the Self.
Thoughts are the mind. The mind decides the habits. Habits knead character and that creates our destiny. Hence, at all times, think of Lord and perform you duties. Abhyasa yoga: habitual thinking of the Lord to the exclusion of all other thoughts is the way.
In life, there is never a problem. All are situations. Handle them intelligently. If you can’t understand the nature of Bhagavan understand the ephemeral nature of the world. Mind must be connected to the Infinite alone. — Compiled by