DEATH

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DEATH

INTRODUCTION

What is death? The final good-bye? Or a transition from one level of existence to the other? Most religions talk of an afterlife. In fact, almost all concepts of morality are based on what`s going to be meted out to us after we die. So, does that make death a moment of mourning, a sad occasion when we see our loved ones for the last time? Or is it a moment of celebration, when we prepare to break free of the mortal form and exhilarate in the communion with the eternal?

The Last Legacy

How would you like your mortal remains disposed of, and how would you like to be remembered? Seekers discuss this through the concept of a ‘spiritual will' More...

Death is Another Form of Life

There is no reason to fear death, as it is just a transition from one state of reality to another More...

Go Gently into the Good Night

Death is the only thing definite about life. here is an initiative that ensures that the sunset of one’s life is a glorious one More...

Of Death and the Deathless

A personal reminiscence on the great Advaita sage, Nisargadatta Maharaj's,devastating teachings on death. More...

The Anatomy of Loss

When life takes away your most precious possessions and relationships, it is offering you an opportunity to learn the art of letting go More...

Facing Death Finding Life

If disasters and deaths are on the rise in kaliyug, we need to learn to cope with and grow through the passage of loved ones by understanding the concept of impermanence. More...

Embracing the Unknown

Living in awareness, it is not only possible to accept death without fear, but even celebrate it More...

Maa an Awakening

In the twilight zone of life and death, a mother and son experience the profound attunement of unity. More...

Dwelling on death

Death being release from the hold of the body and mind, meditating upon it is a way to connect to the higher self More...

Why death is not the end

Death is progression of life into another realm of existence More...

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 More...

This precious life

Living through difficult times, one might toy with the idea of getting out for good. After all, death is inevitable, one might reason. Yet, is life really ours to take? And is doing More...

When the drop meets the ocean

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 More...

A master faces death

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, More...

Moment of truth

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 More...

Die before death

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 More...

The eternal city

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 More...

The river of life

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 More...

Embracing the unknown

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 More...

Dying well

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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Mandala of life and death

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 More...

Essence of immortality

When we understand the secret of death, which lies in the realising of the immortality of the soul, we will be able to leave the body consciously and without fear More...

Mindful living mindful dying

Meditation, by developing a solid centre of awareness within, can help us maintain our peace of mind in the face of pain, aging, illness and death. It provides tools to accept these inevitable More...

Light at the end of the tunnel

Reported round the world, near-death experiences lift the veil off death and show us glimpses of a domain of love, compassion and beauty. NDEs not only obliterate the dread of death but also charge More...

Crossing over

The death of her grandmother gives Deepa Krishnan a glimpse into the wisdom of life where even dying can be a moment of exhilaration More...

Rites of Passage

'Let life unfold its wonders through women, let death find its peace through men'—this seems to be the basis behind rituals related to birth and death in India More...