This is only a body,
so don’t get attached. You do know that if we bury you here, you become earth.
If we burn you, immediately the results are there for you to see. If we bury
you, it takes a little longer. But what happens to you? This needs probing. It
definitely needs looking into, isn’t it? Because this man who is here today, so
real, tomorrow if he can suddenly evaporate, disappear, it is your business to
know what happened, because it is going to happen to you also. Definitely, it is
everybody’s business to know, isn’t it? So that’s where the first step
is. -- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
If you
start looking at your own death, you will definitely become spiritual; there is
no other way.
Today
you are here, and everything is so real — you, your wife/husband, your child,
your property, your work, your ideas, your ego. Each and everything is real.
Today you are here, appearing so real. Tomorrow morning, if you are dead, what
will happen to you? Where are you then? Where did you go?
Your
body is a nuisance. Once you are dead, would anybody want to keep your body? If
even the most loved one in your family dies, will you keep the body in your
bedroom? Like Sankara says, “Bharya Bibyathi Tasmin Kaye”. Meaning, “Tomorrow if
you die, that person who loved you very much or who seemed to love you, even she
will be scared of this one (the body)”.
This is
only a body, so don’t get attached. You do know that if we bury you here, you
become earth. If we burn you, immediately the results are there for you to see.
If we bury you, it takes a little longer. But what happens to you? This needs
probing. It definitely needs looking into, isn’t it? Because this man who is
here today, so real, tomorrow if he can suddenly evaporate, disappear, it is
your business to know what happened, because it is going to happen to you also.
Definitely, it is everybody’s business to know, isn’t it? So that’s where the
first step is.
The
first step is you start looking at death. And if you start looking at your own
death, you will definitely become spiritual; there is no other way.
Unfortunately, today, in our society you avoid the word death itself. Even
children cannot use that word. You say “Rama, Shiva”. The word “death” is banned
at home because you are scared. Just the word, the reminder, scares you. Many
people are scared to even see a funeral procession in their streets because it
reminds them of their own death. Whatever you may shut yourself off to, are you
really going to shut off death?
Once you
are in physical form, there are certain laws, because the whole physical matter
has to be under a certain law. The very creation happens on a certain basis. How
long the life of the body extends depends on various factors — karmic factors,
physical factors and energy factors. And there is another thing, the ultimate
thing, that the time’s over. Once time is up, there is no business for that
being to be here anymore. It is finished.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a yogi, is a prominent spiritual leader,
visionary, humanitarian, author, poet and internationally-renowned speaker. He
can be contacted at www.ishafoundation.org
Source: The Asian Age
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