Death and Relationships : Bliss at Death

1. In God's vision, no one ever dies. If God were to give you this vision, some day, then no number of deaths would affect you in this world. This is because of this right vision (Gnan).
2. In reality one does not die nor does one live. This is all just a mistake in one's belief. He believes that he is living, a mortal (jiva), but in reality, he is immortal (Shiva).
3. The Soul is free from the bondage of birth and death. It is eternal; it has no death.
4. This phenomenon of taking birth and dying is of the ego.It is the ego that is born and it is the ego that dies.In reality the Soul does not die at all.
5. There is birth after death and death after birth. Why does this cycle continue relentlessly? It is because of 'causes and effects, and effects and causes' that the cycle perpetuates. If causes were destroyed, effect too would come to an end and another birth would cease to occur.
6. Karmas are bound through the act of doing, through the act of making others do or through the act of supporting others do the act.
7. Life in my enlightened view is a prison. There are four kinds of prisons: Those who are in heaven are in the prison of simple surveillance with all the comforts. The human beings are in a simple prison. The animals are in a prison of intense labor and hardship. Those in hell are in a prison of hell with life long pain and torture.
8. The cycle of birth and death is for the ego. The Soul is in its own state. When the ego stops, this cycle also stops.
9. Causes of new karma can only be stopped in the human life. There is only effect in all other life forms. In human beings there is both causes and effects.
10. The Gnani never mourns, but he will play out his worldly role with sincerity. 'The world is a drama itself.' All you have to do is play the role. Perform this role with sincerity.

1. A person's karmic account is exhausted through batteries called the mind, speech and the body. When the effect of these batteries comes to an end, it is death. These batteries will last until death. However, as these batteries are discharging, new batteries for the coming life are being charged simultaneously.
2. There is birth after death and death after birth. Why does this cycle continue relentlessly? It is because of 'causes and effects, and effects and causes' that the cycle perpetuates. If causes were destroyed, effect too would come to an end and another birth would cease to occur.
3. Death will not occur without your signature. The law of nature is such that no one can be taken away from here. Without the endorsement of the dying person he canot be taken away from here.

Questioner: How can you ask for forgiveness from those who have died?

Dadashri: Even though they are dead, you can still do through their photographs and you can remember their faces. Or you can still use their name and do pratikraman, and it will reach him. For pratikraman, first recall their pure Soul, which is completely separate from the mind, body, speech and all karmas, of the dead person. Then recall and confess your mistakes (alochana). Ask for forgiveness (pratikraman) for that mistake and resolve not to repeat that mistake ever again (pratyakhyan). 'You', the pure Soul should remain the Knower and the Seer of 'Chandubhai' (the relative self) and know how many pratikraman he does, how sincerely he does them and how many times he does them.

Yamraj - God of Death or Destiny?

I want to get rid of all these superstitions and false beliefs in India. Our entire country is plagued and ruined because of superstition, false beliefs and rituals. I assure you that there is no such being as Yamraj (God of death). When people ask me what it is, I tell them that it is simply destiny, the law of karma, which results in death. I say it exactly as I see it in my Gnan. It is not based on anything that I have read.  I am saying this through my vision of Gnan, not through these physical eyes.