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#025 Death is a Myth! Atleat Partially?
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This actually is the toughest nut to crack. Or rather, try to crack! Actually, I may include birth, too, which is a myth along with this. I may use the first-person singular method to deal with these. Enter the relativity, as I am not George, as it was a name used to represent my physical body largely, and basically, my activities associated with my body. A tip I got when I was attending the 'Art of Living' basic course introduced by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the late '90s. There was a question asked to all: when and at what age each remembered their presence in this world. In my case, it was age three when I was taken to my parish nunnery to join my pre-school, and I refused badly and came back home. So, practically, my life as George started from then only. I lived till then in this world without my persona, after, say, around 3 years after leaving my mother's womb(where, @ nine months of body building process, which may be dealt with sometime later). I assume that case may be the same for most human beings, and I am not sure of other living beings, but I never consider them as superior or inferior to us, and as we can go ahead and kill most of them legally for survival or as a game, is never enough reason to make them inferior.
So, now, death is a myth, with quite a lot of relativity involved. Say, if I look at the phenomenon called death, there are two versions to it, which we normally overlook. First is the' death of others, and second is one's own death. The first one is almost absolute, at least in the plane we are all in. Energy, which was making the one tick, had vanished, and we just had to dispose of the mortal remains with due respect. A lot of religious ceremonies may be conducted, and the purpose behind most of which is not known today, to the best of my knowledge. Even though they were logically correct and formed based on the science that religion had achieved. Sorry, the science which achieved the religion-hood. We are not going to see the dead again or communicate with them. We just have to miss them, even the most beloved ones. Please neglect the Ouija Board and other occult systems. Here, I may introduce, maybe the only postulate for this whole blog page, as: A Time machine is an impossibility. Sorry, and one more, there is free will for us. So death and birth, both, may be considered as a truth in this materialistic plane, even though we never know what we are.
Now, when it comes to my own death, I am really serious about what happens to me at the last minute. No, I am not expecting a solution for this probe. As of now, nobody has come back from death and given an answer to this query. Even then, it need not be valid for me. The hell and heaven story, too, is not acceptable to me, as there is no logic at all in it. It insinuates that my identity/ persona is going to remain intact after death, too. But it is quite possible that either my persona is stripped off, or maybe I just become void. The void part may need some explanation, as it happens to us frequently, but goes unnoticed. I mean a good sleep without any dreams or nightmares, which may partially or fully make you aware of your persona. So that condition may happen in a never-ending state when you die, possibly. That may be the reason why many state death as an eternal sleep. Possibilities are immense. At this stage, I may mention a Hindu devotional poem named Njanappana(The song of knowledge) by a Keralite Brahmin Poonthanam Namboothiri of the 16th century(sad that his name is not known now- Poonthanam is the name of his family), which I had mentioned in my profile section of this blog. I may add a link here, which may give the English translation of the song- click here, and many thanks to Harsha of Luthar.com. The poet faced the accidental death of his only child, which occurred after many years of prayers. The poem gives very lurid details of death, which must have been known to the Brahmins of those days. Which, anyway, was much more interesting and logical compared to the heaven/ hell arrangement. And it explains death mostly with rebirths and won't explain the persona remains in all cases.
Whatever may be the birth and death, it basically deals with the persona part only for us. But what we are actually and our capabilities are never known to us. People like Sadh Guru talk about the life enters the foetus in the mother's womb only after, say, four months after conception. But I do not want to take it as a fact, as I am not going to accept anything blindly. Every, within the womb or out, the life-form within us is changing. Every sleep is critical. The true self may not be understood only if you can trace your way back to your mother's womb; Jesus said something similar to this.
There is another story said by Sadh Guru as a talk between Bodhidharma Buddha and a Chinese emperor, where Buddha asks him to kill his ego/ or self. I might have said before that the self for a human being is considered a bad thing. Applying relativity to the word selfishness, the meaning changes depending on the value of the term self. For a good self the selfishness should produce good acts, and a bad one may give out evil acts (Again applying the same relativity, the good and bad may change their values as time passes; good things may turn bad and vice versa). Many times, a good self may act quite adamantly and make others feel that part a bit irritating and bad. Coming back, the self is normally considered as the persona, and it may be quite correct that what Bodhidharma Buddha had said was acceptable. But then, on a practical level, it is as good as committing suicide or accepting death. Your persona is your last straw here, and the sole purpose of living here, and by any chance, if you manage to shed it by any means, it may expose the raw you within you, and it may be disastrous for you and the society living around you. Being aware of your true self to whatever extent you manage to do so will only remain dynamic, and it can not become static. It is like centrifugal and centripetal forces, and any imbalances may change your radius of rotation and keep the thread holding you healthy.
updated on 23rd July, 2025. Changes/ additions made all along.
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