EYE ON SPIRITUALITY: MAKING PEACE WITH DEATH

It’s been a troublesome week.  A minimum of three those who I used to be near in some unspecified time in the future in my life have handed and I’ve heard of some different nice souls passing.

One in all my pricey Pundit buddies, Gananathamritananda Swamiji, famous that there’s a Vedic calendar part of this:

We at the moment are coming to the time of yr that Rishi Charaka has referred to as the Yamadamshtra (the tooth of Lord Yama). This happens yearly in Oct / Nov over the last 8 days of the month of Kartik and the primary eight days of the month of Margashirsha month. Calculations for these lunar months could range barely relying on whether or not individuals observe the amanta or purnimanta system. From what I’ve seen this era typically appears to stretch for a while earlier than and after the dates talked about by Sage Charaka. They are saying right now of yr, Lord Yama comes near the bodily realm in the hunt for souls which can be able to go from the bodily realm. There are better possibilities {that a} sick outdated or weak particular person could die right now of yr than another.

Once we are younger, we stay our lives pondering that we’ve come to the planet a really very long time and we’re everlasting.  As we become old and we see our buddies and family members go, we get a wake-up name about how comparatively brief our time on this planet is and it forces us to replicate on our lives.

What are we doing right here?  In the event you assume that being right here is about accumulating some huge cash and build up a powerful materials basis, then in some unspecified time in the future Saturn will remind you that issues can rapidly change. This was no extra evident within the Gulf Conflict when the wealthy Kuwaiti oil barons have been preventing within the desert over a loaf of bread.  With the battle in Ukraine, we will see how rapidly issues can change.  We’re right here to observe kindness and compassion and to assist others and you may inform from the way in which the world is transferring, that we had higher get our act collectively.

We stay in a really altering and anxious world and I do know that a lot of you realize or misplaced somebody to Covid and know I discover individuals mysteriously dying from coronary heart circumstances and cancers and it’s a bit shocking.

I’m in my 60s and have many buddies of their 70s and it doesn’t take a lot to push on one thing severe.  Saturn takes over for everybody at age 70 within the Nasargika Dasha which displays the pure cycles of life.  Now we have to do not forget that Saturn is the grand recycling agent that makes positive that there are at all times recent cookies popping out of the oven.  Who needs to eat 90-year-old cookies?  What sort of form are the pressed flowers from thirty years in the past that we cherish in an outdated e-book that we’ve saved?

Timing dying in Vedic astrology is a really tough artwork and isn’t taught as a lot as in historical instances. In my first studying with Chakrapani Ullal in 1985, he informed me that I might stay to 88 and after learning dying cycles, I see that he was right.  But, I really feel that we’ve a number of X-Components now with fears of nuclear battle, bioweapons, and lots of evil individuals in world governments right this moment who don’t worth human life.

As a Scorpion,  with Mars in Bharani Nakshatra, related to Lord Yama, the God of Dying and Transformation, I’ve at all times had a fascination with dying.  Throughout one 1.5-year interval round 2013-14, I had 20 plus family and friends members go and I used to be compelled to make peace with dying or be dysfunctional.  My non secular Guru has helped an excellent deal.

It’s clearer to me day-after-day, that we’ve to stay each second in pleasure and appreciation for easy issues: our walks in nature, the great thing about summer time flowers, the enthusiastic yelps of our beloved pet canine, the smells of recent baked items, the hugs from our household and the continued reference to the Divine via our meditation practices.  If we activate the TV and get caught up of their propaganda, we’re doomed to stay a lifetime of concern and cringing within the nook of our houses.  I’ve acquaintances that have been so afraid to exit of their homes throughout Covid, that that they had not been outdoors for 15 months.  The media has created a mass psychosis that wishes us to be glued to the tube for his or her scores whereas they fill our hearts with concern. Is that this how we wish to stay?

My non secular trainer reflecting on dying notes:

We die day-after-day after we fall asleep. The very last thing we take into consideration earlier than we fall asleep is usually the very first thing that we bear in mind after we get up.
Dying is like sleep. What we take into consideration after we die and after we are reborn creates main wishes for the following life. When life is a sport and you reside it absolutely then you possibly can embrace dying with no concern and never be a part of the continuum.

We have to bear in mind to drop each remorse from the previous and stay within the current and see the previous as a dream after which you’re dying each second and are renewed.

Are you afraid to go to mattress? Are you afraid you’ll not get up? Are you afraid of dying?  In the event you awaken inside and get a glimpse of your very being then you’ll not be frightened of dying and the past. The everlasting Self is past Dying.

Now we have to recollect there is no such thing as a such factor as dying.  The Soul by no means ceases to exist and dying is the largest phantasm.  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, in interviewing individuals who died on the working desk after which have been resurrected, reminds us how inspiring the expertise will be.  She notes that folks’s lives are flashed in entrance of them as they go however solely the moments the place they gave unconditional love and have been sort.  One woman was proven a time at summer time camp when she gave up her in a single day journey to care for a handicapped woman who couldn’t go.  That is the largest wake-up name in that we have to bear in mind it’s not about how a lot stuff we accumulate however how a lot love kindness and compassion we ship day-after-day!

All of us have an expiration date and one of many Secret of Dying is in individuals’s Jyotish charts. It isn’t one thing I wish to predict or really feel assured with anymore with so many X – X-factors on this planet.  When our time is up, we transfer on to evolve on one other airplane. Life is everlasting and continues.

Dying is nothing greater than taking your coat off and altering garments leaving a smoky and stuffed room and going out into the recent air and daylight and being free.  The heaviness is launched and one is able to take flight with the track.

There’s nothing to be apprehensive about with dying. It has been happening since time immemorial and it’s nearly taking one other step into your everlasting existence.  There’s nothing to tremble about.  If we stay every day as if there can be no different with pleasure and love and laughter, we could have no regrets.  Greater than ever, it is very important maintain telling all of these round us how a lot we love them let go of petty fights and bitterness, and simply understand how valuable all of us are.  Make-up with these with whom you maintain grudges.  They is probably not right here subsequent yr.

Transfer past concern and into love.  I’m reminded of a quote from one in every of my favourite books, Emmanuel’s E-book,

You’ll not exhaust the love within the universe in case you have been to soak up it from now till the tip of time.  Love is all that exists.  Love is common communication. It’s the power that has created the universe and is conserving it going.  God is love.  All matter is fashioned by love.  There’s an natural love that speaks to everybody if they’ll however hear.  A leaf is held collectively by the facility of affection. . . .

The best want in a soul is to attain that loving of self which is able to result in unity whereby the judgments which have triggered such ache are eradicated.  

Take pleasure in my YouTube video, Secrets and techniques of Dying from my Astrology Class on Well being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQiv_M21AQ