People generally avoid talking about death and many deny the fact that they are afraid of death as though it is beneath one to be afraid of it.Death is certain once we are born and our conscious mind avoids the topic of death as far as possible. However, it creeps in.
We were in Yugoslavia and there were no antibiotics. My temperature was so high that I lapsed into a strange coma and had an out-of-body experience. I saw a tunnel in a pearlescent blue colour. I wanted to go through it, but I had the contrary sensation of desperately trying to stop myself.
There is a school of thought which declared that philosophy is born out of fear of death. Well, that is also one of the reasons. The quest for immortality is present in Humans. Also the urge to explore and enquire. What happens just before death, at the time of death and of course after death. After I wrote an article on Life after death, one reader called up and told me she enjoyed the article and wanted to know if I can be 100 % sure of my views on Life after death. I replied that to answer that honestly, I should die first and more importantly I should be able to communicate after my death and she should be able to receive it.
That’s how it is about things beyond us. At times like these one examines the tools of Knowledge.Hinduism has Perception, Inference , Testimony Comparison, Intuition.Some accept all,yet some only Some.Vedas or Sruthi comes under Sabda praman, Testimony.
One should experience life. Life is not lived by Mind but by heart and emotions. So experience plays an important part in Life.
There are volumes upon volumes of testimony from all cultures, geographical areas,countries, from people of different races and languages on Near Experience to Death.
Most describe that they saw their own body lying in state and we’re in a position to see and listen in to what is being spoken and what was being done to their own Body while they watched. I had written on This and also on the death rites of Hinduism that relate to these issues. People reported that they felt warmth, surrounded by Bluish Light and felt extremely happy.This is common vto all Out Of Body Experience,O.B.E.
Out of Body Experience.
I am providing here below the OBE narrated by popular Canadian actor Donald Sutherland.
“It was soft, warm and I was the most relaxed I’ve ever been. I somehow found myself looking down on my own body, stretched out like a shell. At first I couldn’t get my brain to order anything to move, but I was determined not to die.
The Eastern systems of philosophy consider Human body to be a case for the soul. Human body is made up of the Five Elements of Nature, Earth,Water,Fire,Air and Space.Prithvi, Appu,Agni, Vayu and Akasa.These five elements are present in the Universe and it’s objects, both gross and subtle.When these elements are in grosser combination, they appear as physical entities.When their combination is in finer form ,they are in Astral , Sookshma,Abstract Form. Every human body has both Sthoola,Gross and Sookshma Sareera, Subtle Forms. While the grosser form, this physical frame is visible and is nourished by The Essence of Food, subtle body is nourished by our actions and reactions, both in the present and past Lives.
Thai Monk leaves body at Hisill.
Every body is destined to have a specific number of breaths.Once the limit is reached, Breathing Stops, human body returns to the five elements.Unlike other Religions, in Hinduism, the Subtle Sense organs, seeing,hearing,smelling,eating/speaking ,and touching disintegrate into respective elements.Gross body returns to earth, if buried or turns into Fire when burnt,as ashes.
Both Indian Yogis and Buddhist monks know the process of controlling ,stopping breath.This, in Buddhism, is called Rainbow Body.
‘very advanced people through the century have vanished into what is called rainbow body ( Ja Lu in Tibetan and Indrachāp Kaya in Sanskrit ) where the persons body dissolves into rainbow light and vanishes while teaching their disciples while bells and cymbals and music is heard and insence is smelled . Guru Padmasambhava from Uddiyan in the Indian subcontinent ,in what is called Swat Valley in Pakistan today,who studied in Nalanda and attained enlightenment in Nepal, Kathmanu and was crucial in transmitting Buddhism into Tibet in the 9th century and Prahe Vajra of present day India and Sonam Tsemo of Sakya Tibet went like this .
And gallores of practitioners went in another lower type of rainbow body where their body dissolves gradually within 7–14 days approximately as stipulated by themselves after they stop breathing . Their body is enclosed in a tent by their disciples and 24 hour watch is kept around the tent with chantings and prayers while rainbow lights emit out of the tent and bell and music are heard and incense is smelled and when the tent is opened up in the stipulated time there’s only the clothes and hair and nails etc the rest of the body has vanished . In just one monastery in Kham Tibet ( bordering mainland China)called the Kathog Gumba built around the 11th century , by 1959 when the Tibetans fled from the Chinese , their log book shows 125000 practitioners of that monastery/Gumba in Tibetan alone , had gone in this second type of Rainbow body when they died . Records of other monasteries were destroyed in the cultural revolution. And how many Buddhist practitioners went like these two ways mentioned above in the Indian subcontinent has been lost during the Isalamic invasion of the Indian subcontinent , which completly destroyed Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent . After all by the 8th century 75% of the Indian subcontinent ( not just present day political India ) was Buddhist. And 75% of Asia was Buddhist .
Then there were many Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhist Mahasiddhas who went to Khechar loka with their bodies which means their body just vanished at the point of death . These are signs in the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism practiced in Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia ,China and Japan of a very high realisation or level of Enlightenment /Awakening/Bodhi . Since all records were burnt in the Indian subcontinent when people like Bakhtiar Khilji raided Buddhist Monastic complexes like Nalanda , Vikramashila, Somapuri( now in present day Bangladesh where th town of Somapura still exists ) , Odantapuri . Jagaddala etc etc and burnt all the Buddhist books and sutras and Shastras , we have no idea how many lakhs of Buddhists in the Indian sbcontinent went like these . Bhakhtiar himself writes in his diary that he burnt 90,00,000 Buddhist Scriptures in Nalanda alone.https://www.quora.com/Has-there-ever-been-a-Buddhist-monk-disappear-through-enlightenment
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I have remarked in an article that there are two reasons for this.
One is the fear of Pain accompanying Death and another is,
The uncertainty of what would happen after death.
Would we suffer unbearable pain after Death as described in various legends and Religious Texts?
What would happen to us after Death?
Are we reborn?
In that case will we be a Human being?
People reported that they were enveloped in a pool of white light while they were experiencing out of body sensation.This, they said after they survived from near death.
Will what is called as Sins haunt us?
I have a friend who is a neurophysician of world repute , a scientist and consultant to over Eighty Governments.True scientist that he is, he ,on this subject and on things which defy logic and empirical science says that once you start saying awareness or the concept of ‘I’, Neurology takes a backseat.Most of the things that are felt, experienced by this are not explained in Neurosciences.Cognition is one such Concept.Undestanding and feeling, there is a fine difference. Some experiences are not explainable from the angle of neurology.At best, they attempt to stimulate and try to understand the phenomenon.However, the answer,at best, would how it could have happened,that too as a tentative hypothesis,and never why .
Such an experience is one feeling one to be out of one’s body, looking at it and observing it. Most of the times, one can recount what had happened during that period.Some times the Experience, called Out Of Body Experience,OBE,is quite vivid,and sometimes it is not.You can see yourself,either seeming to float over your body, or standing away from it. This happens, typically either when you are sitting ,deeply engrossed in thought or, at other times, you are lying down, not sleeping, but hovering around that area between sleep and wakefulness.You can, at that stage,see your body,people around you and hear what the see or hear. But you do not hear what you say! The last part is my personal experience.
Check out yourself. This happens to everyone of us. What is the explanation?
Esoteric Hinduism and Buddhism have explanations.
As a philosophical theory, Hinduism talks about layers,Sheaths covering human soul,Atma.
Annamayakosa,Sheath of the essence of food.
Pranamayakosa,Sheath of Breath,
Manomayakosa,of Mind,
Vignyanamayakosa,of Knowledge and
Anandamayakosa, sheath of Bliss.
Our Body, according to Hinduism,is, apart from our Karma, is sustained by essence of Food,annarasa.We can compare to our concept of calories generated ,that gets converted to Energy. Similarly, Prana is the vital energy and there is a sheath of This vital energy surrounding human body. Then we have the Mind, which is repository of responses received by it from the external world and also the impressions created in our Mind because of our dispositions.This is the next sheath. After this we have the sheath of knowledge, Vignyanamayakosa. Knowledge is different from information. Information is collected by the Mind while knowledge is the domain big Intellect, Buddhi, the discriminator between Right and Wrong, Correct and Incorrect.This sheath is the one that keeps us away from Reality, Brahman, by feeding us untrue knowledge.The final sheath is Anandamayakosa.This is a sheath of Bliss.This is the Attribute of Brahman, Reality.This is our our real nature.
Except, Annamayakosa , all the kosas,sheaths are beyond body. These sheaths support the physical frame.During out of body Experience, Manomayakosa kosa comes into play and it observes the gross ,Sthula sareera,body as a disinterested Observer.It is impelled to do so because of our Karma palas, our actions reactions and our dispositions.Dispositions are determined by our Actions.
According to Hindu thought Human body has two aspects. One is Gross ,another Subtle,Sookshma.The Sthula sareer is sustained by Annarasa,essence of food,Sookshma sareera is maintained by Pranamaya kosa and Manomayakosa.This is why out of body Experience happens.When manomayakosa is quite active as in deep thought, it goes out and observes body.Mind is not expected to leave body for a long-time unless dictated by Prana. Sometimes because of some remnants of Good karma vasana, remnants of good actions, mind goes out and tries to say out. But the Time is not over for the Body.It is over only when Prana,life energy leaves the body.So Prana pulls the Manomayakosa back to gross body. While it renters,at times, it may not enter at the correct angle. So, you would find a Jerk,as in suddenly coming awake or while breaking away from deep thought.
Buddhism says body has Gross level,followed by Abstract. Abstract has Etheric level,Auric level Etheric body surrounds the physical body( immediately next to it) and then Auric body surrounds.When one sees the Physical Body, it is the Etheric body that sees it.
More of Etheric body is explained by Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, Reverend Leadbeater and Dr. Annie Besant. I shall write on this.
On Buddhist interpretation, please read Lobsang Rampa’s The Third Eye.
I have remarked in an article that there are two reasons for this.
One is the fear of Pain accompanying Death and another is,
The uncertainty of what would happen after death.
Would we suffer unbearable pain after Death as described in various legends and Religious Text?
What would happen to us after Death?
Are we reborn?
In that case will we be a Human being?
Will what is called as Sins haunt us?
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Indian philosophy answers this on two levels.
One is after death it is observed in Higher Philosophy,that one does not die as the Atman, the soul is eternal and is never affected by pain or births or deaths.
Another view is that, as detailed in Garuda Purana , one is made to go through various punishments for sins and granted heaven for Righteous deeds.
I tend to agree with the former explanation of soul not being touched death as death is only a transition, as Krishna puts it ,”As Human body goes through childhood, youth and old age,
Kaumaaram Yavvanam Jara’ Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2.
But one can never be sure for none is here to report these experiences.
But there are medically recorded experiences of people who have touched the jaws of Death and there are people who have out-of-body experiences.
The former is called Near Death Experience(NDE), the latter,out-of-body experience (OBE)
I have posted a couple of articles on this.
Enveloped in A Pool of Light, Near Death Experience(NDE)
Now there is case well documented where the NDE is explained vividly and he medical team has recorded it with instruments.
In all these case, the philosophical view of Hinduism is reinforced.
People have reported being enveloped in a sheet of white light which felt warm, they have been able to see what is taking place, though they could not perceive, see or hear it with their senses.
The perception has become more acute.
In some cases they have been able to see their ancestors.
The ceremonies conducted by the Hindus state that after death, for twelve days the sukshma sarrera remains near the place of death, can perceive every thing and they leave only after Sabindikarana.on the twelfth day.
And Indian thought says it is Light which is the expression of Life.
The Santhi Mantra says TamasoMaa Jyotir Gamaya, Lead me from Darkness to Light.
Curious to note here is that Living is called Darkness and moving out of the body is Light!
Look at the explanation in the image below of Thirumoolar , A Siddha,in Thirumandiram is Tamil.
Samkhyas and Vedic Thoughts differ only on minor points.
Thirumoolar Explanation of Evolution of Universe.
Now read the report of verified Near Death Experience.
The report.
Pam Reynolds who had a Near Death Experience.
In 1991, Atlanta-based singer and songwriter Pam Reynolds felt extremely dizzy, lost her ability to speak, and had difficulty moving her body. A CAT scan showed that she had a giant artery aneurysm—a grossly swollen blood vessel in the wall of her basilar artery, close to the brain stem. If it burst, which could happen at any moment, it would kill her. But the standard surgery to drain and repair it might kill her too.
With no other options, Pam turned to a last, desperate measure offered by neurosurgeon Robert Spetzler at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Spetzler was a specialist and pioneer in hypothermic cardiac arrest—a daring surgical procedure nicknamed “Operation Standstill.” Spetzler would bring Pam’s body down to a temperature so low that she was essentially dead. Her brain would not function, but it would be able to survive longer without oxygen at this temperature. The low temperature would also soften the swollen blood vessels, allowing them to be operated on with less risk of bursting. When the procedure was complete, the surgical team would bring her back to a normal temperature before irreversible damage set in.
Essentially, Pam agreed to die in order to save her life—and in the process had what is perhaps the most famous case of independent corroboration of out of body experience (OBE) perceptions on record. This case is especially important because cardiologist Michael Sabom was able to obtain verification from medical personnel regarding crucial details of the surgical intervention that Pam reported. Here’s what happened.
Pam was brought into the operating room at 7:15 a.m., she was given general anesthesia, and she quickly lost conscious awareness. At this point, Spetzler and his team of more than 20 physicians, nurses, and technicians went to work. They lubricated Pam’s eyes to prevent drying, and taped them shut. They attached EEG electrodes to monitor the electrical activity of her cerebral cortex. They inserted small, molded speakers into her ears and secured them with gauze and tape. The speakers would emit repeated 100-decibel clicks—approximately the noise produced by a speeding express train—eliminating outside sounds and measuring the activity of her brainstem.
At 8:40 a.m., the tray of surgical instruments was uncovered, and Robert Spetzler began cutting through Pam’s skull with a special surgical saw that produced a noise similar to a dental drill. At this moment, Pam later said, she felt herself “pop” out of her body and hover above it, watching as doctors worked on her body.
Although she no longer had use of her eyes and ears, she described her observations in terms of her senses and perceptions. “I thought the way they had my head shaved was very peculiar,” she said. “I expected them to take all of the hair, but they did not.” She also described the Midas Rex bone saw (“The saw thing that I hated the sound of looked like an electric toothbrush and it had a dent in it … ”) and the dental-drill sound it made with considerable accuracy.
Meanwhile, Spetzler was removing the outermost membrane of Pamela’s brain, cutting it open with scissors. At about the same time, a female cardiac surgeon was attempting to locate the femoral artery in Pam’s right groin. Remarkably, Pam later claimed to remember a female voice saying, “We have a problem. Her arteries are too small.” And then a male voice: “Try the other side.”Medical records confirm this conversation, yet Pam could not have heard them.
The cardiac surgeon was right—Pam’s blood vessels were indeed too small to accept the abundant blood flow requested by the cardiopulmonary bypass machine, so at 10:50 a.m., a tube was inserted into Pam’s left femoral artery and connected to the cardiopulmonary bypass machine. The warm blood circulated from the artery into the cylinders of the bypass machine, where it was cooled down before being returned to her body. Her body temperature began to fall, and at 11:05 a.m. Pam’s heart stopped. Her EEG brain waves flattened into total silence. A few minutes later, her brain stem became totally unresponsive, and her body temperature fell to a sepulchral 60 degrees Fahrenheit. At 11:25 a.m., the team tilted up the head of the operating table, turned off the bypass machine, and drained the blood from her body. Pamela Reynolds was clinically dead.
At this point, Pam’s out-of-body adventure transformed into a near-death experience (NDE): She recalls floating out of the operating room and traveling down a tunnel with a light. She saw deceased relatives and friends, including her long-dead grandmother, waiting at the end of this tunnel. She entered the presence of a brilliant, wonderfully warm and loving light, and sensed that her soul was part of God and that everything in existence was created from the light (the breathing of God). But this extraordinary experience ended abruptly, as Reynolds’s deceased uncle led her back to her body—a feeling she described as “plunging into a pool of ice.”
Meanwhile, in the operating room, the surgery had come to an end. When all the blood had drained from Pam’s brain, the aneurysm simply collapsed and Spetzler clipped it off. Soon, the bypass machine was turned on and warm blood was pumped back into her body. As her body temperature started to increase, her brainsteam began to respond to the clicking speakers in her ears and the EEG recorded electrical activity in the cortex. The bypass machine was turned off at 12:32 p.m. Pam’s life had been restored, and she was taken to the recovery room in stable condition at 2:10 p.m.
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