Science Behind the Death Rituals by Sadhguru

mic for him yeah we almost touched that but we left this when when a person dies whichever way he dies any of you in India it is not a reality but if you have seen that close-up someone close to you died and you you're supposed to sit and watch no use it nobody leaves a dead body alone you have to someone has to be there if you have sat there if you keep the body for over two days three days you will see the hair will grow only if a person is shaving you will notice it because the facial hair can be noticed nails will grow you will see in other countries we have the preserved bodies for a long time the Undertaker's clip the nails shave them and all this because a dead person is growing his hair and his nails why this is so ease in the manifestation of life the physical life there is let me separate this there is life and physical life for the sake of understanding the physical life has manifested itself the physical life energy which generally is referred to as pran or prana has five basic manifestations there are ten but that will complicate the five basic manifestations these are called Samana prana would Hana apana and viana when a person is declared let's say if a doctor is observing and they declared that person at a particular moment that he is dead now in the next 21 to 24 minutes Samana will start exiting that means Samana is in charge of maintaining temperature in the body first thing that happens starts happening his body starts cooling down the traditional way of checking whether somebody is dead or alive is they'll feel the nose if the nose is gone cold the that's how they concluded that he is dead they wouldn't check the eyeballs and I think they would just check the nose if nose has become cold that means he's dead so Samana exits at that time somewhere between 48 to 64 minutes prana exits after that between six to twelve hours would Hana exits till you Donna exists there are tantric processes with which you could revive the body but once good Hana exits there is a micro micro chance but that is an impractical chance except that it is impossible to revive the body once Hana is exited the next thing is apana somewhere between 8 to 18 hours this exits the viana which is the preservative nature of prana will start exiting from beyond that it can continue to exit up to 11 to 14 days if it's a normal depth that is somebody died of old age with the feebleness of life they exited for such a person between 11 to 14 days certain processes will be happening in the body to show that there is some element of life like nails growing hair facial hair this kind of things can be noticed if someone has died accidentally or in other words the life was vibrant and he died not necessarily totally crushed kind of body still the body is intact that body the reverberations of this life will continue somewhere between 48 to 90 days so till that time there are things you can do for that life what is the thing that you can do for that life see what has happened with that is your experience of death is that somebody is gone but the experience of that person is he's exited the body and simply because he's exited the body you have no business with him you cannot recognize him and if he comes back you will be terrified the people that you love if they pop up yeah they'll be terror not love because your relationship is either either with their body or with their conscious mind and emotion these things have been left behind the body has been left behind and the conscious intellect and the discerning mind has been left behind now in terms of mind it is just a bunch of information we has certain tendencies of its own natural tendencies which are finding expression in a certain way there is no discerning mind once there is no discerning mind if you drop if you put one drop of pleasantness into this mind which has note this discerning capability no intellect now this pleasantness will multiply a million four if you put a drop of unpleasantness that unpleasantness will multiply a millionfold it's like your child who doesn't have the necessary discernment he goes out to play he doesn't know when to come back till he's exhausted and he can't do anymore till then he wants to play because he has he doesn't have the necessary discernment ok it's time to go similarly this is an extreme state where it is much more than a child where completely the discerning mind is absent so now whatever quality you put into it it will multiply a million for this is what is being referred to as hell and heaven if you go into a pleasant state of existence this is called as heaven if you go to an unpleasant state of existence this is called as hell these are not geographical locations these are experiencing realities that a life which is become disembodied is going through so what people are trying to do how well it is done or how ridiculously ridiculously it is done today's a different matter but there is a whole science what to do at different steps one of the first things you must notice is traditionally I don't know if you're still keeping it in Mumbai maybe it's all gone but if somebody dies there will be people the first thing they will do is they'll tie the big doors of the dead body together you still do it or gone yes it's very important because tying up the big doors will tighten up the mooladhara in a certain way so the body cannot be invaded or attempts to invade the body by that life once again because that that life has not lived with the awareness knowing that this is not me it is always believed this is me though it has come out it tries to enter through any orifice that is there in the body particularly through the muladhara because that's like that's where life generates and as body starts cooling down the only region where warmth will remain till the last point the last point of warmth is always the muladhara so it tries to get back to avoid this the first thing is tie the toes so that that attempt will not happen because this exiting is happening stage by stage the reason why it's additionally always we said if someone dies within an hour-and-a-half or maximum of four hours you must burn the body because this act is going on now this is also true for the living if someone very dear to you is dead you know he's dead but your mind starts playing tricks maybe he's going to sit up just now maybe a miracle will happen maybe God will come and do something fantastic right now it has never happened to anybody but still mind plays this because of the emotions that we have for that particular person and that is the same thing is true with the life that is exited from the body this also believes that still it can get back into the body if you want to stop the drama first thing is set fire to the body one in her house but those days because you know villages and no doctors to tell you for sure he is dead somebody put on a funeral pyre and set fire the guy sits up because he's not yet these things have happened in the past so they stretched it to four hours so that these mistakes don't happen but as quickly as possible body should be taken away if there are agricultural communities they decided to burry because they want the forefathers and their body to go back to the soil from which they ate you must understand we were in a subsistence farming we ate from that land that land a piece of that land is what we are holding as this body so they wanted to put this soil back into the same soil not somewhere else always you bury him in your land never in somebody else's land because you ate from this land today you're buying everything from the store and eating you don't know where it's coming from so burial is not a good thing to do now at that time there's a certain process and to see that it happens as quickly as possible always salt and turmeric was put so that quickly it dissipates into the soil but cremation is a good thing to do because it closes the chapter you will see this when there's death in the family people are crying and hollering and doing all kinds of things the moment cremation happens people will come back home everything is quiet nobody is crying for some time because suddenly the truth has sank in it's over the game is up this is not only for you this is also for the disembodied being who's just exited because he's also in that illusion that he can get back and that stops and that's a good thing and there are many rituals to see that you're influenced that you can somehow put a drop of sweetness into that non discerning mind so that the sweetness will multiply many fold and they will live comfortably or they will live in a certain self induced heaven that's idea behind the rituals if it is done properly today it's becoming their asking you you the dead need Footwear an umbrella someone who's left the body here does not need Footwear for sure isn't it the man who's doing the ritual needs the footwear I don't know why they cannot say I need the footwear at least you would buy them the right size there is a I'm sure all of you heard of this word called Ronin Honda this Ronin when the means physical relationship wherever you touched anything it can be because of parentage it can be because of sexual relationships it can be just because you held somebody's hand or it is because you changed each others clothes in many ways two bodies will generate what is called as Ronin de bunda that means there is a certain commonality which begins to happen so when somebody dies traditionally you're looking at in how many ways you can completely obliterate this and spread it around the idea of putting the ashes in Ganga or in the ocean is simply so that he doesn't stay in one place and create hunan bandha for you it must be disbursed as widely as possible so that you don't develop Ronin Abunda with one who is departed you must break the relationship for you to continue your life if this ranana banda is not properly broken as it is happening in modern societies it will definitely affect your physical physiological structure your psychological structure particularly children are generally children up to eight years of age are immune to these things they will not be affected by this Nature has given them that protection adolescents will be most affected by these things when we do not take care of the dead properly adolescent children in that society will suffer immensely because these energies are always there and the first that they go towards the easiest and the most vulnerable life is the adolescent life and today the world is showing you this how much upheaval people are going through just to face adolescence I'm sure many of you who are of our generation your adolescence was never a struggle today it's such a big struggle one reason it's not the entire reason one reason is we are not taking care of those who are departed properly and these runa Bundys have lose all over the place it is just like loose software everywhere and it affects and the one life that get affected most affected most is always the adolescent life but what do you do how do you make the powder of your emotions and sprinkle it those emotions are going to be with you you can't cut those ties you can't you grind your emotions they go with you and and you ask people who lose their dear ones and ask them such a cut and dry mechanical way of sprinkling your ashes and you should be cut off I don't think it's possible see emotion is another aspect emotion is a secondary aspect to your life because the was physically present here because of variety of relationships that you hold and above all our physical sameness in so many ways either because of blood relationship or because of sexual relationships a physical sameness that's happened is what we are referring to as ranana bandha you want to eliminate that because this can cause sickness this can cause psychological derangement another aspect emotion by itself is not damaging you had a beautiful relationship with somebody and today if that person is no more the healthy way if you these things are eliminated what will happen is you will cherish the beauty of that relationship rather than suffering it but if the Raanana bandha is there it weakens your body and your psychological structure in such a way instead cherishing all the beautiful things that happen between two people you are suffering not only suffering it will lead to certain derangement of life to avoid that we are only trying to destroy the physical memory the emotional and psychological memory you should not forget not only that you cannot forget why should you forget someone who meant so much to you why should you forget them you must cherish this relationship forever isn't

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Published: Sat Mar 10 2018