Death Bypassed Part - 2

Continuing on the "Death Bypassed" mantra, this blog brings out its powerful and fascinating implications. In particular it shows how Asuri Vipath is overcome and our Devata status gets restored.

“Death Bypassed” reality could indeed be the underlying secret behind the great zeal, extraordinary adaptability and untiring and successful evolution of life. This coupled with the ability to fuse with one another, to divide, to multiply and to be present simultaneously in many places when needed and to produce an infinite variety of prototypes gives much strength and speed to evolution to adapt and to continue life. Life is not, one passing information to the other, but it is the same one making changes as required and continuing on and on at every level, at every point in it and by each body in it. “Death bypassed” makes it straightforward and easy for us to appreciate the operation of the effects of karma because it clarifies how the actor will be always present in bodily form itself for experiencing the results and consequences of action. This generates much control over recklessness. It promotes positive attitudes and actions by all. Tendencies for committing various forms of crimes and adharmic acts will be subdued when it becomes clear that no one ever gets away. This control operates from within and hence is very efficient and effective. It has a sobering effect on all. It also creates much hope in the future. There is no reason for desperation. It is important to note that the karma effects, or laws of karma as they are often referred to, does not mean tit for tat, or eye for an eye or any such rash thing. It is not even an action reaction thing. Karma is what keeps life going. In a very broad sense there is only one Virat Purusha and hence karma affects all and every jiva or actor in it will experience the consequences although in different ways. Patience becomes a natural part of our lives. Life’s plan and vision is always holistic and expansive and is for eternity.

The heaven, hell, afterlife, salvation and such concepts have really no place in the reality where one never discards the bodily form. One never dies. Even then, if some one is hooked on to these ideas and is desperate to keep the ideas alive for some more time, these highly damaging concepts can be redefined and described as good or bad states of life following the action in this life itself or in successive generations later here in concrete bodily state rather than something, which will happen ‘up there’, or ‘down there’, or somewhere, sometime or through someone.

But anyway, the gory and rather ridiculous ideas and fantasies of hell and heaven and the prescribed ways and means to them will go. The maddening stretch of imagination used in the present descriptions of these imposed beliefs will no longer be tenable. The power and grip these ideas have on the lives of large groups of people will also go. We can thus break free from the deadly terror empires of many of such so-called religious beliefs. Terror empires will disappear very soon. We can indeed save our minds and bodies, and also the human society and its soul from a purely man made suffering. We can free our lives from the peddlers of such beliefs too. Terror kings can be dethroned. The conversion and religious mafia who use the twin weapons of heaven and hell for their hunts will have to look for other jobs. Hopefully they will be productive and useful jobs. At least, let them not be harmful. Most of our rituals and rites will acquire new, more solid, better comprehensible meanings. For example, the rites one performs as a mark of respect to our ancestors will become the appreciation and admiration we show to our own previous bodies and our pride in their achievements. We can think of doing even better this time and differently too, if required. This process generates much greater confidence in us to perform our best in everything we do including that of creating and nurturing our future bodies i.e, our children.

How does our ‘death bypassed’ reality affect our relationship with God? Indeed, it changes this rather unequal, hazy and shaky relationship at present for many large groups of people, into a more balanced one. It makes the relationship much stronger, because it takes fear out of the equation. The relationship becomes truly solid, certain, unbroken and eternal. It now becomes an interaction between one confident eternal entity and another eternal confident entity. God becomes our friend and our partner rather than a judge, a book keeper, a book author, an arbiter, a punisher, a law maker, an examiner, a witness or any such thing. He becomes the source from which we can draw energy, knowledge, inspiration and such invaluable things.

Our praises, prayers and offerings become direct and focused on much more tangible things. This indeed is what our Vedas are largely about. There is much to gain if we get back to basics of life once again in everything that we do including religion and spirituality.

What happens to no - God philosophies of atheists or don’t know types of philosophies of agnostics? By and large in theory they are unaffected. In practice, however, their status becomes much better because much of the influence of God in many religions until now has been in our unverifiable post-death stage. Now if death bypassed reality is accepted, God's influence on our in-life conditions becomes the main issue. Since it is directly visible and quite a bit verifiable and can even be subjected to statistical tests, the subject becomes a science rather than a pure faith. Then all streams get merged. Atheists and agnostics may take the role of impartial objective evaluators. In a way unity arises even here, a domain which has until now been full of fights and even deadly wars. Religion too will become a science and will make rapid strides and can even enable rapid improvements in our well-being. Family relationships will be much stronger and healthier. Children will see parents as their ready references and guides and their own well experienced previous models. Parents will realize that children are their own newer bodies. The wife and husband will become unified practically permanently in their children and descendants. Likewise, close connection and unity will be felt between all family members too.

Our relationship with nature and everyone and everything else also becomes solid, eternal and indeed natural and similarly focused on basics and tangible things for life. The same thing happens to our relationships with friends and relatives too. Plants, animals, rocks, rivers and mountains too will now appear to us as our eternal partners rather than fleeting scenes or as merely things to be exploited. We shift from becoming bubbles in the ocean to being the water that makes the ocean. Fear of getting burst vanishes. Permanency replaces transiency. If the stomach is full and one is not hard pressed for life or at least not surrounded or haunted by terrorists, even a lay person can mentally move around the web of life with the great sameness sign in his hand and easily experience the wonderful yogic Virat Purusha Laya state of the unity of all life.

Life once again becomes a joyful life for its own sake, rather than a frightening test, a trial, a chance, a punishment, an opportunity, a mistake, a trap, a process for some other goal, a journey, a sin or any such absurd thing.

Dharma, Artha, Kama, moksha, the four desirables or purusharthas as they are rightly called, will continue to be the four desirables in life. The first three desirables will have more or less the same meaning as until now. But the fourth one, the moksha, would now specifically refer to being in a state free from suffering regardless of the actual conditions of life. Life is indeed beyond suffering.

Suddenly, we too will be able to effortlessly experience this freedom. Nothing special needs to be done for this, really. Keeping a picture of a simple banana plant in our mind and thinking about the death bypassed truth it displays so clearly is good enough. Gradually we can see this truth anywhere, in anything. A true recognition of the Death Bypassed reality for all is all that is needed. This is a state of Jeevanmukti - freedom for living and freedom from suffering.

Institution of marriage will have a far greater meaning especially once children come in. The two jivas of parents have merged in the form of children and will remain so permanently generation after generation. Hence, once a child is born, parents should not divorce under any condition. Divorce or split of parents in the outside visible world causes terrible stress and split in the inside, in the invisible world of the children.

Marital responsibility is a natural thing for all. There should be no word called divorce in any dictionary. Even if under some extraordinary situations one or both parents do perform the marriage like act somewhere else with someone else, the first marriage should not be dissolved. On the contrary, if painful break up, divorce, punishments and such things are provided for, encouraged or worse still, imposed, as is being done now by the laws of the land, they inflict significant damage to the lives of all generations to come. This will cause severe damage to society. Making provisions for divorce through law, whether man made or so called revealed, under any condition is the worst disservice we can do to the great institution of marriage and even more so to ourselves and to our society. It is worth noting that there is no provision for divorce in sanatana dharma and many other cultures. Until recently at least, there was not even a word for divorce in Sanskrit and Indian languages.

Tendency for committing rape and such things has no place in a society which understands that we really live for ever and together and that all of our actions will have their inescapable consequences. Law or no law, the very knowledge of permanency of the union within children and future generations will have a powerful unifying effect on all couples. Unity in family will facilitate unity in society too. Thus, our ‘ Death Bypassed ‘ which may be called a software, a mantra, a discovery, a recognition or a realization can have a truly transformative positive effect on everything that we are. It can have an equally transformative positive effect on our relationships with one another and also with nature and God. Abhayam, which is the first and foremost among the daivee sampaths, becomes ours once again. Abhayam, the quality of being fearless and causing no fear in others, becomes our natural state. Our status as devata gets restored. We can see devatas present all around us. We can experience Pushpavrishti - shower of flowers of blessedness, grace and joy- over us and over our earth. The vision of 33 Koti Devata organization is to create an environment suitable for this through education and community action.