Sadhguru: You may check somebody's breath
and declare them dead, but they can still feel sensations. There's a whole school of udan in China,
where you might have seen those movies, where they have mastery over udana where
they can float around a little bit. There are yogic practices
to activate this. If vyana recedes,
even when you're alive, body will begin to rot. There are certain types of snake venoms
which can do this. This is the reason why in this culture you have rituals
running up to fourteen days. Dr. Rajasekaran: Sadhguru, you said about life. And that brings a big question
what doctors have about life. Now they say we have
one trillion cells in our body... Sadhguru: Mmm-hmm.
(Indicating agreement) Dr. Rajasekaran: …and each of this cell
is living by itself. And when you say a patient is no more, it's just that the brain dies
after two or three minutes, but still a large part of his body
is still alive. Sadhguru: That has changed now.
Doctors are saying the brain lives for over ten hours. Today the new… Dr. Rajasekaran: So he is dead
but the brain is living. His skin, his muscles, his bones
live for many hours. So, we have said, “He’s dead” but
a large part of his body is still alive. And these cells even when
after the patient is dead, you take the cells and put in a cul...
(Overlapping conversation) Sadhguru: Those of you
who are all shaving every day, even after you're dead, we still
have to shave you. You know this? Dr. Rajasekaran: (Laughs) The hair grows. Sadhguru: That is why I'm ready, you know?
(Few Laugh) Now, you asked why if somebody is dead,
still some of the cells are active. It has been recorded up to ten hours
there is lot of activity and actually the brain goes into
a certain level of activity and produces certain
very surprising elements in the last ten hours after
somebody is medically dead. As I said, dead bodies are given a shave
up to ten, eleven days. Why this is so? What we're calling as life physically
is a mechanism on many different levels. There is hardware and there is software. You are core of hardware – bones.
(Laughter) The software is equally important. Otherwise, how would a cell know
that it's a human cell that it is not a pig cell or a tree cell
or something else? How does it know?
Because there is an entire software, there is memory – evolutionary
memory, genetic memory, karmic memory. There are varieties of memories imposed on every cell in the system
so that it never gets confused. If you eat dog food for three days
you will not become a dog, isn't it? Because the memory
is entrenched in this. So there is a whole software. The software package is actually bigger
than the hardware – much bigger. And it is energized by what we
are considering as a life force. In yoga, we call this prana. It manifests itself
in five basic dimensions. There are other forms to it,
which gets too complicated. Five basic forms – these are called prana vayu, samana
vayu, apana vayu, udana vayu and vyana. These have different functions – prana is related to breath,
respiratory action and thought process. If the prana vayu depletes,
your respiratory action will go away. So immediately, doctor checks
and says, "He's dead." they'll try to pump their chest,
if he doesn't come back, he's dead. Respiration and your pulmonary action
are very directly connected – once respiration stops, that process
will naturally come to an end. So prana vayu is gone. It's not
like one after another they will go. They will go at the same time,
but one goes means this is gone. If samana vayu goes – this is in charge
of generating heat in the system – so once samana vayu starts receding, the body starts getting cold
and it also starts becoming stiff. Once apana vayu starts receding
in a major way, then the sensory aspect of it... We must understand this, you may check somebody's breath
and declare them dead, but they can still feel sensations. There have been any number of cases
where people get terrified because a dead body moves a little bit. This has happened again and again,
many, many times that when he's been medically declared dead, there are twitchings in the body
that happen in a very mild way because the sensory activity
is still on. Still, life is not fully convinced
that it's finished. It is still making an effort of its own. When udana vayu goes away,
then the buoyancy is gone. When I say buoyancy, see, you may weigh seventy or eighty
or whatever number of... I'm sorry. Maybe you weigh fifty
or fifty-five kilograms (Laughter) whatever is your weight, you don't – let's say you're very happy
and alive right now – you don't feel fifty kilograms on you,
isn't it? Hello?
Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: It is there. If you stand
on the scale, it is there. But when you walk, it is not there
simply because this udana creates a buoyancy – It makes you less available to gravity. There are yogic practices
to activate this. There's a whole school of udan in China where you might have
seen those movies... Hollywood movies – what is that? Crouching Tiger or something,
something. What? Dr. Rajasekaran: Hidden Dragon.
Sadhguru: Yes. So these are udan schools,
where they have mastery over udana where they can float
around a little bit. Well, little exaggerated in the movies,
but becomes lighter, more buoyant body. For a martial arts fighter,
to be buoyant is important. There have been many cases
where certain ballet dancers and martial arts experts have shown
what is physically not possible they have done by leaping up to heights, which all physicists believe
is simply impossible. But they've gone beyond that level
simply by creating more buoyancy. So udana is in charge of buoyancy.
Once udana starts receding, suddenly, body becomes heavy. Always it was the same weight.
Weight does not increase, but you can feel the weight much more
simply because udana is gone. This, doctors may know –
maybe doctors don't do it, the people who work
in the hospitals may know, carrying a live person and a dead
person, there's a big difference, simply because udana is gone,
there is no buoyancy. The fourth dimension is called vyana.
This is preservative in nature. If vyana recedes, even when
you're alive, body will begin to rot. There are certain types of snake venoms
which can do this. If they bite you, you will not die. But literally parts of the body
will start falling apart simply because vyana will recede
and it will start falling apart. So, once vyana recedes,
the rotting process will begin. There are systems in yoga where we want
all the seven to go reasonably together, within one-and-a-half hours
we want it to go. In normal death, depending upon
the age of a person, how vibrant a particular body is,
it may take a long time. When I say long time,
up to fourteen hours it may take. Vyana may take up to
fourteen days to leave. This is the reason why in this culture you have rituals
running up to fourteen days. Because they feel
the vyana may be still there because when you bury a person,
the vyana may be still hovering there, so up to fourteen days.
That is the reason why within one-and-a-half hours, in this
(Laughs) culture, that was the rule. If somebody dies, within an hour-and-a-half
you must cremate them. But then mistakes happened.
When they were still alive, somebody put them on the funeral pyre.
So they stretched it to four hours. Within four hours, you must cremate. But today, there are issues –
all kinds of issues about it. So people are waiting
for one day, two days – daughter is in America, she has to come,
she'll come after three days, and they will wait. But the idea is for the one who is dead
we must understand this, you are... Do you? You don't
diagnose people as dead, you declare them dead, right? (Few laugh) There is a difference. So when you declare them dead,
for you they're dead. As far as that person is concerned,
in a way, all that's happened is – he is disembodied, he's lost his body. All his life
he lived thinking he is a body, never realizing
the physical mass that we carry is an accumulation from this planet –
he never realized that. When suddenly he slips off the body,
he tends to hover around the body because he's lost
his discriminatory intelligence. Once you leave the body, the
discriminatory intellect is not there, so this tends to hover around that body.
So in this culture, we said the moment we are sure
that somebody is dead for sure, you must immediately cremate them because it's good for that dead,
so they know the game is up. And it's also good for the living. You will see if somebody
very dear to you is dead and their body is here, you keep on hallucinating,
"Maybe they're just sleeping, maybe they will sit up,
maybe some miracle will happen. Maybe something else will happen."
You know, this will go on unnecessarily. You will see people are crying
and big emotional drama is happening. But the moment you cremate them,
you will see everybody becomes silent. Have you noticed this? Always. Because
now everybody knows the game is up. It's for the living and for the dead. So about life leaving the system,
it is so entrenched, it is not something poop
it'll go away like this. In stages it goes away
because it's in stages it came in, it's in stages it'll go away.
