Death Defying Acts-Part 2

Embodiments of Love! 

After reading the second verse of Vivekachudamani by Adi Sankara, my confusions have multiplied.

Sankara says that 100 lives are required for Liberation that too with all qualities and qualifications intact; how is it possible for me who is inconsistent in spiritual practice and discipline?

I wonder that how many wives/children/cousins/sisters/brothers I need to remember after death.

Wife of first birth, son of second birth, his child that has taken birth in a family of my 4 th birth, marrying the grand child of a cousin of the 5 th birth…….

Hey Ram ,

I started reeling due to the gravity of the blows of the never ending confusions!

In one analysis on what happens after death, the following details are worth mentioning

There are 1+ 5 components

1)  the supra causal body ( subtle ego)

2)  the causal body ( intellect)

3)  the mental body ( mind)

4)  the vital body ( life sustaining energy of the body)

5)  the physical body

6)  the SOUL

after death only the physical body is left behind; the resulting Subtle body has the above 6 elements minus physical body

after death the physical body( stula sareeram) remains on earth

the vital energy which sustained the life in that body is released into the universe

the subtle body ( linga deha) travels to a subtle area, swarga loka ( heaven), bhuva loka ( nether land) or paathaal loka (hell) depending upon merits.

The Subtle body cannot come to earth but can visit all other 13 planes according to its merits and demerits.( so whatever you earn now cannot be claimed by the subtle body)

Let us stop here and see what Sankara has to say:

Glory Of Spiritual Life—Verse 2

जन्तूनां नरजन्म दुर्लभमतः पुम्स्त्वं ततो विप्रता

तस्माद्वैदिकधर्ममार्गपरता विद्वत्वमन्मात्परम्

आत्मानात्मविवेचनं स्वनुभवो ब्रह्मत्मना सम्थितिः

मुक्तिर्नो शतजन्म कोटिसुकृतैःपुण्यैर्विना लभ्यते

For living beings, Human birth is rare

Difficult is to attain Manhood

Rarer is the satvic attitude

Steadfastness is yet rarer

Rarer is the proper understanding of the scriptural imports

Rarer is the discrimination between the real and unreal

Rarer is the realization that self in me is the self in all

After all these comes Liberation

This kind of a perfect liberation cannot be obtained without the meritorious deeds of 100 well lived Lives!

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

28.07.2012