Life and Death are Not Different

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For one who is aware, life and death are not separate occurrences – rather, Sadhguru explains, they exist in every breath and every moment. Those who do not embrace death will never know life. Sadhguru Talks @ In the Lap of the Master Sathsang, Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore, Apr 2009 **************************************** Transcript: http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/video/life-and-death-are-not-different/ Sadhguru: Death is not something that happens to you sometime in future. It's happening to you all the time. If you are unaware, you are ignorant it comes to you sometime; you do not know when but it’ll come. If you are aware in every moment both life and death are involved. If you as much as breathe little more consciously you will notice with every inhalation there is life, with every exhalation there is death. If you are not getting the point just do the next inhalation and do not… next exhalation and do not take the next inhalation you will get the point. Every moment, even beyond the breath, every moment it is happening. It's like the ticking of the clock life and death, life and death, life and death. It's all the time happening. One who is aware of this will naturally become aware there is no such thing as life and death. Life is death; and death is life; they are not different. It is only a question of the womb, the crawling out, growing up, taking the loan from the planet and putting it back but it's just life or it's just death. We need not have invented two words for this. It’s just one thing. We can call it ‘Da-life’ (Laughs) because they are not two different things. It is out of a very gross sense of unawareness about the life process… because the wonderful gifts that have been showered upon humanity we are using them like toys; it feels this way. This mind, this brain capable of incredible things but we are using it like a toy I think people enjoy toys, isn't it? (Laughs) A large percentage of humanity is so suffering the mind that slowly it has become fashionable to teach you to become no mind. Took millions of years to evolve to this state of mental capability; now we are talking about no mind because a no mind is better than a crazy mind, but a conscious mind is a fabulous thing. Why would anybody want to give this up - because they do not know how to handle it? If you knew how to handle it… if you knew how to handle it you wouldn’t want to get rid of this. People are seeking peace. I don't know if you walk straight on this pathway through the school and beyond there we have some very peaceful creatures. Did you see them? You didn’t see the ashram cows? No? Please go, you must see them. They are really peaceful, especially at this time of the day they are mulching (munching?)what they ate through the day and… (Gestures) very peaceful; more peaceful than lot of saints. Just a full stomach - so much peace. Just grass; see this is all you have to do (Laughs) because not much of a mind; even to create turmoil you need a mind, (isn't) with certain capability? So this mind has become a problem only because of so many silly assumptions we have made about life. So many kinds of camouflages we have put on life not seeing it just the way it is. All kinds of inventions about it; too many philosophies; too many ideologies… oh I am going too far. Lot of people are just living by some silly slogan that they read somewhere. This happened in an African village. There was a man eating lion bothering a certain village; grabbing men, women and children off and on and having… making breakfast of them or dinner. So they did not know how to deal with this lion because it was a very ferocious animal. So they called the big time celebrated hunter from Zimbabwe; his name was Kola Mandell (spelling unsure) Smite. Kola Mandell Smite is a big man, carried a big gun and (he) is a big game hunter; big on all things. So they invited him for a grea…big fee. He came; he walked around the village for three days, the lion didn’t turn up. He had other contracts, so he said, ‘My time, precious time is going away. So let me do one thing. Bring one of your cows here.’.. Read Full Transcript: http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/video/life-and-death-are-not-different/ **************************************** More Videos & Blogs on Website http://www.isha.sadhguru.org Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Subscribe to our channel here: http://isha.co/2ebiGKm Free Guided Meditation by Sadhguru at http://www.ishafoundation.org/Ishakriya Free Yoga Tools For Transformation at http://isha.sadhguru.org/5-min-practices/ Official Facebook Page of Sadhguru https://www.facebook.com/sadhguru Official Twitter Profile of Sadhguru https://twitter.com/SadhguruJV Download Sadhguru App 📲 http://onelink.to/sadhguru__app