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Jul - Sep 2004

In the light of death

Rather than entertain ourselves away from death, an embracing of our mortality could help us become more connected and open, and remove what could be a major mental block in our life quests. The way to do this is to see the ..... More >>

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The road back
by Jayita Ekta
Death of a loved one or a family member can be a traumatic experience for a child. Here are ways in which we can understand the grieving child and exercises that can help her overcome her sense of loss and fear ... More >>
How should I grieve
by Toni Packer
A letter exchange between two friends, one who is grieving the loss of her mother and sister, and the other who tries to help her understand her sorrow
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Dying with dignity
by Jayita Ekta
Rites of passage have lost their sanctity in modern times by becoming hospital and medication-driven events. By focussing on end-of-life care, we can ensure a dignified passage for the dying by making available unconditional... More >>
Conscious living conscious dying
by Randy Peyser
Stephen Levine along with his wife, Ondrea, has provided emotional and spiritual support to the dying and their caregivers for the last three decades. Using meditation and other ways of developing awareness, the Levines have... More >>
Riding the Holistic wave
by Roozbeh Gazdar
About 220 km from Mumbai, nestled in the verdant hills of the Sahyadri range lies Pune. Its location at the holy confluence of the Mutha and Mula rivers has earned it its traditional sobriquet of punya nagari or ‘holy place.’... More >>
Beginnings and Endings
by Sushma Amatya
Life is a composite of the new and the old, of birth and death, of the changeable and the eternal, discovers a woman as she mourns the death of her beloved sister  
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Eye on now
by Ritu Bhatia
We live most of our lives imagining that good things lie just round the corner. What we don’t realise is that this is it, the miracle is right here. There is nothing to wait for. It is this life that we have been... More >>
The other side of death
by Roozbeh Gazdar
Many religious traditions and cultures have propounded the idea that this one life is not the only one there is. Could it be possible that death is not the end, but just one chapter in the book of life? We examine the evidence... More >>
Mandala of life and death
by Narayan Choyin Dorje
Between birth and death, there exist intermediate states or bardo in which, according to Tibetan Vajrayana, there exists an opportunity for nirvana. If we have practised well, we will be able to recognise the... More >>
Dying well
by Satish Kumar
In the Jain tradition of sallekhana, death is made into a conscious, even celebratory event. An account of a mother’s sallekhana
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Embracing the unknown
by Amodini
Sallekhana is the Jain practice of conscious dying, where a person wilfully embraces death at the end of a full life. It is a brave way to die, by embracing the inevitable in awareness, instead of running away... More >>
The river of life
by Amodini
Rites and rituals have been part of human life for centuries, especially those connected with birth, coming of age, and death. Here, we examine death rituals of different cultures, from the dawn of humanity to the... More >>
The eternal city
by Nishant Arora
For Hindus, Varanasi, the sacred city situated on the banks of Ganga, is the most auspicious place to die. By dying here, it is said, one has a good chance of breaking the cycle of life and death... More >>
Die before death
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sufis believe in ‘dying before death’. It means one should play with death and find out what it is. The whole way of the Sufi is that play with death, which becomes the means to understand the mystery hidden behind life<... More >>
Moment of truth
by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The Qur’an encourages us to always remember death. Knowing that you will die some day, you will be unable to act carelessly. Because you are accountable to God, you will act from a place of responsibility ... More >>
A master faces death
by Virginia Lee
As a pioneer of consciousness expansion in the West in the 1960s and ‘70s, Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) has been an icon for spiritual seekers around the world. Now debilitated by a stroke, he shares his thoughts on life,... More >>
When the drop meets the ocean
by Barbara Briggs
We fear death due to wrong identification of the self with the body. In death, all the components of the body, senses and mind disintegrate until only the Self remains. If we have become acquainted with our Self,... More >>
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