Seeing Life as a Dream
29 October 1969 am iation Camp at Dwarka, Gujarat, India A few questions have been asked about last nights talk.
Question 1
ONE FRIEND HAS ASKED: ONE DIE FULLY SCIOUS, BUT HOW ONE BE IN FULL SCIOUSNESS AT BIRTH?
Actually, death and birth are not two events, they are two ends of the same phenomenon -- just like two sides of the same .
If a man have one side of a in his hand, the other side will be in his hand automatically.
Its not possible to have one side of a in my hand and then wonder how to get the other side -- the other side bees available automatically.
Death and birth are two sides of the same phenomenon.
If death occurs in a scious state, then birth iably takes pla a scious state.
If death occurs in an unscious state, then birth happens in a state of unsciousoo.
If a person dies fully scious at the time of his death, he will be filled with sciousness at the moment of his birth also.
Since we all die in a state of unsciousness and are born in a state of unsciousness, we remember nothing of our past lives.
However, the memory of our past lives always remains present in some er of our minds, and this memory be revived if we so desire.
With birth we ot do anything directly; whatsoever we do is possible only iion to death.
Nothing be doer death; whatsoever is to be done must be done before death.
A person dying in an unscious state ot do anything until he is bain -- there is no way; he will tio remain unscious.
Hence, if you died before in an unscious state, you will have to be bain in an unscious state.
Whatsoever is to be done must be done before death, because we have lots of opportunities before death, the opportunity of a whole lifetime.
With this opportunity an effort be made towards awakening.
So, it will be a great mistake if someone keeps waiting until the moment of death to awaken.
You t awaken at the time of death.
The sadhana, the jourowards awakening, will have to begin long before death; a preparation will have to be made for it.
Without preparation one is sure to remain unscious ih.
Although, in a way, this unscious state is for your own good if you are not yet ready to be born in a scious state.
Around 1915, the ruler of Kashi had an abdominal operation.
This was the first such operation ever performed in the world without the use of ahesia.
There were three British physis who refused to perform the operation without giving ahesia, saying it was impossible to have a mans stomach open for one-and-a-half to two hours during a major operation without making the patient unscious.
It was dangerous -- the danger was that the patient might scream, move, jump or fall because of the unbearable pain; anything might happen.
Hehe doctors were not ready.
But the ruler maintaihere was no cause for as long as he remained iation and said he could easily remain iation for one-and-a-half to two hours.
He was not willing to take the ahetic; he said he wished to be operated upon in his scious state.
But the physis were relut; they believed it was dangerous to have someone gh such pain in a scious state.
However, seeing no other alternative, the physis first asked him, as an experiment, to go into meditation.
Then they made a cut in his hand -- there was not even a tremor.
Only two hours later did he