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Immortality
One who is going to be liberated and immortal doesn’t bother
about death, because he has time as his instrument. One who is afraid
of death and thinks that people die, is a slave of time. So you have
the chance, the opportunity, the choice, between slavery to time or
mastery over time. So I recommend to you all a little wisdom in handling
time because that is the secret to what we call immortality.
What is immortality in the presence of Divinity? No longer
must He be someone from whom I can be separated even by thought. Because
in the realm of the infinite, there can be no separation. Separation
from what, where, how? I breathe, and the air I breathe is of course
separate from me but it’s also a part of me. It is something which is
of me, in me, and yet not of me because a moment comes when I cease
to breathe. That moment when I cease to breathe, when I can say I no
longer can breathe, I no longer have oxygen in my lungs, is precisely
the moment when I die. That separation means death.
It was not for nothing Babuji used to say that He could not
be separated from Lalaji even for a second. It is the breath of His
breath, the life of His life, Pranasya Prana. We are all talking
of Pranasya Prana. We don’t understand what it means. We all
know that physical extinction comes about when physical breathing stops.
If a mere few cc’s of air can make a difference between life and death
to me, as we physically understand it, what should be the situation
when my life’s life is separated from me. Because in yogic tradition
we say the body lives by that which we call life, and the life lives
by that which we call the life of the life, the prana of the
prana. So if for this merely mortal physical existence, this
breathing is so important, that few seconds, few minutes of separation
means an extinction of my existence, can we be ever parted from that
which is the life of this life? Logic says no. Because if that happened,
I couldn’t even exist physically. That is responsible for that life
in me which is keeping me alive in this existence.
Immortality does not mean eternal existence, as it is commonly
interpreted. It means not being subjected any more to death. Eternal
existence has no meaning, because we think eternal existence means an
infinitely extended existence in time. Eternal existence means
rising above time itself. There is no past, there is no present,
there is no future, and in that condition, how are you going to live
for ever and ever? When I am beyond time, there is no possibility of
living eternally, living for ever and ever after. I live, that’s all.
I exist.
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