Death Bypassed Part - 1

This blog, using a simple banana plant as an illustration clearly explains how death is bypassed by all living entities. It destroys the widely prevalent idea of death and fear of all kinds including the deadly one of hell.

To illustrate how this happens in the real world we can take the case of a simple banana plant. After a few months of growth a banana plant creates a few additional parts like itself attached to itself at the base. As such no one can say they are different plants. Soon the first part produces banana fruit, gifts goodness and withers away. Others continue to live. A common (mis) understanding of this event is that the banana plant has indeed died, and that its offspring's, the saplings live. Conclusion ( wrong) is that life span of an individual is short but life as a whole continues by reproduction of offsprings, saplings and so on.

But, there is another more apt, accurate, scientifically correct, practical and philosophical way of looking at this. Knowing well that its present body will not last long, the plant produces additional bodies for itself with full interest and at the earliest. As a result, when the old body falls off, the plant does not die at all. It continues to live on. Thus the ‘new plants’ are not new plants and separate entities really, but they are new bodies of the same old plant. Death has been bypassed.

In the case of trees too, which produce seeds, same thing happens. The tree produces additional bodies in large numbers albeit separated physically by a distance. But they are bodies not for others but for itself. They are not bodies for somebody else. The tree has cleverly bypassed the death using its foresight, intelligence, commitment and hard work.

In the case of animals and humans too the situation is not different. Children are our next model bodies for ourselves produced by ourselves. This must be the reason why there is so much excitement, attachment and commitment among people and animals alike for producing and nurturing their children sufficiently well. If on the other hand the children indeed were to be some other souls and entities who are literally strangers to you, who barge into you, or rather invade you, who on earth would really bother to take up so much pain? In fact people would then shun having babies. It is because you are building new bodies for you, and you alone, you put in all your energy and emotions in the creation. You use your best materials, codes, tools and options. Out of trillions of possibilities ( sperms) mother ( egg) chooses one. Children are produced not because you want them to support you in your old age or to take care of your assets, protect your nation, continue your traditions, you like playing with them, they came by themselves, God gave them, or any such thing, but only because they are you and you alone. They are your own newer bodies. They are not for you, they are not by you, they are not through you, they are none other than you. This way safe and sure rebirth is already a fait accompli. In a way, one is reborn not after death but before itself!. The old body, after its time, withers away but there is no reason for any tension because the new bodies are already in operation. Death has been bypassed.

One may ask who is the baby really, father or mother? The answer is both. When the bodies merge, jivas merge too.

One may ask what happens to those who have no children. Do they die? Answer is no. Here is the analysis. Childless ones too are none other than their parents. Parents would have had more than one children, who would have had some children, who thus become nothing but own additional bodies of the childless too. Thus moving forward-backward, exploring the network and applying the equality or sameness sign, you can prove and assert that childless ones too don’t die.

Death is bypassed by life in all conditions, in all forms, by all living organisms. There is no death. Finally what happens when one whole species becomes extinct? Species of life have evolved in an intricate interconnected way. So as long as any trace of life exists anywhere in the universe, which is most likely at all times, your body continues to live because the whole life is indeed your body. In due course when conditions are suitable all types of specific tailor made bodies including the ones which may very well resemble your present body will re-emerge. Here too, moving around across the web of life with the equality or sameness sign in hand, we can establish that there is no death for any individual. Thus death is bypassed, or more figuratively, death is conquered.

A jellyfish named Turritopsis dohrii is known to live within the same frame forever. There are many other species too which nearly manage to do the same. If the jelly fish can do it, all the wiser and more gifted animals including the cleverest of them can’t be lagging behind in bypassing death.

One may still wonder how can one person be present in many bodies at the same time. But then, even ordinary matter like electron is known to reside in many locations simultaneously. Simultaneous presence in many positions, or states is also well known in all quantum sciences. When it comes to God and other such entities we anyhow effortlessly accept such qualities. We also know that we can have as many copies of software codes as we wish to make and can launch them with slight differences among them tailored for different situations.

Gross physical bodies with boundaries have restrictions but jiva is not a gross physical entity. It can create, manipulate and play with and in the physical body, including the play of bypassing death, so long as it is within the physical body and it has access to resources. Then, one may ask why no one feels that way when it comes to us as individuals. The answer is that in order to keep independent maneuverability and efficient functioning one creates a distance. If we can’t feel that we are separate, pain of all bodies will be all over us all the time. We may not be able to eat even. For that reason not only our nerves, our brain and blood flow etc., are designed to operate independently, but our minds, thoughts, philosophies etc, also don’t prefer to dwell too much on the identity. Unfortunately, we have taken this separation, a purely operational tactical arrangement, too seriously, too far and extended it to eternity even after our old bodies fall off. Consequently, we have been fearing death, a frightening state of infinite eternal non - existence, a state of pure emptiness, and for our emotional satisfaction and security we have been conjuring up elaborate schemes and programs for rebirth, relocation and rehabilitation.

Meanwhile, few seized the opportunity and invented eternal horrible hell, attractive heaven, grand salvation etc. They filled the imaginary afterlife vacuum with these inventions and created a huge empire of loot, power and exploitation. Some groups have taken it to even more horrible levels tailoring them for genocide, mass killings, elimination and conquests, wars and all kinds of subtle or violent terror campaigns against all others. Yet higher levels of virulent violence has been unleashed on all others by making these horrible acts mandatory for every individual follower of the group for reaching the coveted heaven and for avoiding the eternal hell.

Coming back to the main topic, is the assertion of death being bypassed all new? Not really. For example, in Vedas there is a clear statement that father indeed is the son. Jivo brahmeti vijanath, is another statement in the scriptures, which means that the jiva is brahma. Meaning that it is deathless, endless, boundless and eternal.

There are several consequences from the observation and general conclusion that our jiva, which is what we really are for all practical purposes and for all the foreseeable future, lives on and on here itself. Even if a particular body fails to create new bodies, jiva lives on in its other living bodies. Jiva never misses its body form. Even before old body withers away it is already living happily in the other bodies as well which it has created in advance mostly by itself for itself. It lets go the withering body after achieving whatever possible through that body.

You are not dependent on any one else to give you the next body. Most of the time you create it yourself, in the best possible way, the way that you wish, the way that you need, with the best options and tools that you have and with your best possible attention, love and affection.

Another benefit relates to guilt, sin etc. Guilt of killing, violence etc., even under unavoidable circumstances like for food, in self defense, or even accidentally, vanishes because just as you have bypassed death, others too have. They too live on in newer bodies. Life becomes unburdened from the weight of its essentials. It ceases to be seen as a violence unto itself. Life moves on placidly, lightly. Everyone becomes jeevanmukta without having to do anything special. Life in the present body form itself gets recognized as divine which it always has been. One experiences boundlessness. One experiences eternal existence. One realizes that he is a devata and starts behaving as one. Such ones experience freedom from suffering. Moksha is attained.

If one recognizes this truth clearly many more good things begin to happen. First and foremost, fear of death vanishes, for, a condition of lack of body never arises at any time. One continues to live on, not as an atma or as a sookshma shareera, a ghost or a soul, somewhere, but to live right here mostly on this earth itself in solid physical condition. One does not have to wander all over the universe in search of another body or be forced or driven into another body or be dependent in any way on other mediators for one’s next condition. After all why should you. That too when the knowledge, power, resources and tools needed to make the body that you like are all in your own hands.

Heaven, hell and such destinations and fantasies and apprehensions and the idea of other types of strange bodies being gifted to you or forced on you can thus be safely dropped. In fact, they must be dropped. Only then we can live in peace free from fear, self torture, suffering and sorrow. Working for life and life alone becomes our most exciting assignment. You become very sensitive to the future. Future now belongs to not somebody else, not even to your children, but to you directly. You will nourish and nurture all till the very last moment just like the banana plant which lives without fear, offers wonderful fruits as its joyful gift from its old body and continues to live on in its newer bodies. Human life too will become normal again.

Human beings too will realize that they are immortal even in their mortal body forms right here, like devatas anywhere and will start behaving as such.

The purpose of 33 Koti Devata organization is to create an environment suitable for this through concerted community education and action.