In the last post we saw about Sense of Mystery.
And, how objects of mystery changes over time and become
mystery of death at the
end.
Mystery of death is haunting and cause of great fear unlike
fantasy of younger age.
Fear of death is considered to be the primary fear.
At secondary levels it is manifested in fear of losing job,
dear ones, status etc, gradually
leading to fear of death.
So, Fear of Death can be seen as ending of something known rather
than beginning of
something unknown.
Looking closer,
It can not be Fear of the Unknown but Fear of losing the Known.
The reason is,
The very structure of Ego/Ego-self
is such it is always BECOMING something from
BEING something.
Poor to Rich, Illness to Well
Being, or seeking pleasure, avoiding pain and so on.
There never been an instant
where ego-self is not in the process of becoming except in
states like JOY, where
ego-self is not becoming anything and also not present.
Otherwise,
It projects a FUTURE based on the PAST and works
towards it in the
PRESENT and on realization
that becomes the PAST, the cycle goes on.
In this cycle, there is always
a FUTURE, ego-self never encounters a state where there
is NO-FUTURE or ENDING.
So, Ego-Self can not have any
idea about DEATH/ENDING of itself from its own
experience.
Its knowledge regarding death
comes through seeing the end or death of others.
When it extrapolates its own
death through this experience, it projects absolute
‘Absence of itself’ as it has seen
absolute ‘Absence of others’ after their death.
It projects a void and fears its
own extinction, not what lies beyond.
So it is not fear of the unknown
death but fear of extinction of the known, and it is only
a projection of the personal
mind or ego-self not necessarily true.
The reality could be anything,
need not be extinction of the self.
So, ‘DEATH’ means ‘Extinction
of the Self’ as far as Personal Mind or Ego-Self is
concerned.
This feeling generates
tremendous fear paralyzing the mind – at the extinction of self,
everything done or not done
are in abeyance, meaningless, nullified including the self.
Grief
Now, coming to grief caused by
death.
If dead ones are remote, it
has very little impact, in fact people endorse killing ‘others’
for Common Good, Nationalism,
Religion, Ideals etc.
But, if ‘others’ are dear and near ones grief
takes over.
So, it is not Death parsec but attachment is the real cause
of numbness, despair and
sadness surrounding death.
On the surface, it looks one grieve
and feel sorry for the dead, actually one feels sorry
for One-self over the loss of
solace, comfort or joy derived from the dead.
It appears untrue and cruel
too.
But, there can be some truth
in it because healing reveals something about it.
It is common to say ‘Time is
the Healer’, in course of time grief and sadness will be
healed.
In fact, through time one compensates
the loss by gradually filling the void created
by the dead with new things
(Physical or Psychological) and comes out of
grief/sadness.
This is done by the
unconscious part of the ego-self making one believe that time has
healed it, at unconscious level
ego-self can be extremely subtle and
selfish.
Perhaps, this could be the reason
why in some traditions, it is equated to sin or evil.
Now the inference,
Mystery of death remains a mystery-Beliefs of after life etc, are comfortable but not
real.
But, fear of death is real and
unavoidable because of very structure of the ego-self -We
have explained it already.
Conditioned and limited
(Finite) Ego-Self can not contain solutions for all the problems
thrown by the infinite-
Cosmos.
So, fear of ending or something
going wrong will always be there.
Suicides and life sacrifices
are committed over fear of life or denial of life, not
Over acceptance of death.
Fear in all its forms can be
ended only when one transcends the finite Personal
Mind(Ego-Self) to General
Mind(Real-Self) and to the unconditioned and infinite
Absolute Mind( Uni-Being or
Objective Reason).
In that plane of consciousness,
fear ceases and bliss prevails.
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