Today I would like to talk about the most frightening but unavoidable thing: death. Among birth, aging, sickness, and death, the one we are the most frightened by is the last one, and it is unavoidable, isn't it? I will talk about what happens in dying for most people.

We have heard that our body consists of the five primary elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth and soul. We are told that when we are dying, the soul will go out, depart from the physical body of the five elements. Further, the five physical elements will separate from each other, no longer combining together because when the soul is present, it acts like a magnet keeping the five elements together, just like the thread of a rosary joining all the beads together. If I remove this thread, the beads will fall to the ground. The same thing happens when we die. But we are not a rosary, because we have feelings. Why is death such a painful event! First of all because we are unwilling to leave this world, our relatives, friends, husbands, wives, children, fathers and mothers, etc. Secondly, because we are frightened of not knowing where we will go after leaving this world. Thirdly, because we haven't prepared ourselves, we do not know what to do when we die. Otherwise, dying is a very happy moment with nothing to be afraid of.

Many people teach us many things in this world: our parents teach us how to eat, and how to walk. Teachers teach us how to read and write and many more things. Doctors and midwives teach future mothers how to give birth, for example, how to take care of themselves, and how to look after the fetus so that birth giving will be easier and not so painful. But no one teaches us what to do when we are dying. Nothing is mentioned. We can learn how to give birth, receive care when we become elderly with pensions and insurance. Doctors treat our sicknesses and teach us how to avoid or reduce the chance of being sick. But no one talks about death, and it is not good. Therefore, I will teach you tomorrow how to 'die.' (through initiation)

All the functions of the body will stop the moment the soul leaves the physical vehicle! Just think, we spend most of our time focusing on this body and little or no time on the Real Self which is our eternal Beloved. That is why we need to distinguish the true man from his shadow.

The world is impermanent. Even if we learn a great deal, it won't help much. Great scientists also have to die, the most famous genius must leave this world and everyone will do it empty-handed. That is why all religious scriptures emphasize that we should not be so attached to this world. Why! Because if we only think about this world, we will have to come back to it, and if we think about God, we will go to Heaven. All religions teach us this, but it isn't easy to think about God.

You see, we prepare ourselves well for the birth of a child but why not for our death, which is the most important thing? When we have a baby, many people come to comfort us, but when we die, no one can be with us although it is the moment that we experience the deepest loneliness and suffering. Death becomes a painful experience because we aren't prepared.

Our door has nine 'doors', such as our eyes, ears, nose, etc. We can use any of these doors to exit the body, but when we die we will transmigrate again in the lower realms. Take a house for example. If you are leaving in a hurry through a window you may end up with many contusions. You must instead use the front door. But we cannot leave if it isn't open. There is only one door from which we can go to the higher realms. It cannot be seen with our physical eyes. Only the great Masters can open it. Since we cannot open it ourselves, we should ask someone who already opened his own door and will show us how to open it. Then we practice every day opening and closing it, and the day we depart we will have no trouble leaving.

I will teach you during initiation how to die, and afterward you will have to practice every day. If not, you will forget because you are too attached, too used to this world. All your thoughts go to your husband, wife, to your work and your boss. Take a nap and see how they immediately come to disturb you and make you worry. Therefore, we should save every day two and a half hours to practice 'dying.' During initiation, the Master will escort you and instantly take you to higher regions, and you won't have time to think about what you left behind. What you will see during your ascension will depend on the level you will have reached when you died.

Our last moment's thought is very important. If all you think about is misery, you will go to hell. If all you think about is Master, happiness and bliss when you are with the Master, you will be in Nirvana in no time. So that's the secret.

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We must take care not to make new karma. Don't make a new reaction to pull us into suffering anymore. We must keep the precepts and keep vigilant day and night with our spiritual strength. Whatever we desire at the time of death, we get. That is a problem and not many people know about it. That's why they don't think they will fall into hell but they will. It's a pity.