When we enter into the dream layer and start dreaming, we have seen that this whole world in which you live in now becomes black and white because we are in the dream world. We forget this whole world and the dream world becomes multicolour. If we come out of the dream, this whole world is again seen in 4 dimensions, like 4D.
Now, when we are in this physical layer, this whole world is seen as 4D. We experience this world as 4D, in multi-colour.
When we are in the dream world, we experience that world as 4D. So, when we are here, the dream world becomes black and white, and this world becomes 4D, and when we are there, the dream becomes 4D, and this world becomes black and white.
In the same way, when we move away from the physical layer to the pranic layer at the time of death, this whole world will become black and white. All of your achievements, your pride, your efforts, your sorrow, your happiness, everything will appear in black and white. You will wonder ‘Why did I do all this work? Why did I think of all this as a base for my life?’
Let me explain why this happens. When we are alive we invest in our personality; we build up our personality based upon a few pillars. There are a few pillars or foundations on which we build our personality. Those pillars are money, name and fame, relationships, pride that we have a big community, support circle, etc.
If somebody asks you, ‘Who are you?’ what will you say? ‘I am an engineer’, ‘I am a doctor’, ‘I am a lawyer’. Or you will say, ‘I am the owner of four houses.’ Or, ‘I am such and such a person’s husband or wife’, or ‘I am her husband’, or somebody’s son, or somebody’s daughter, or somebody’s wife. Our personality is built on these few foundations.
When we move from the physical body, all these foundations will be completely shaken. We can’t sign our name on our cheques any more. Our signature is not accepted. Our bank balance is no more related to us. We can’t handle our bank account. Our car will not be useful to us. At the most, only the ambulance will be useful! Our house will be filled with all our relatives. They will be weeping to see us dead. But neither our house nor our relatives will be useful to us. We can’t even relate with our relatives. We can’t talk to any of them. If we try to, they will run away!
But who will come after that? Nobody! Nobody can come. Only the conscious glimpse can come with you. In this way, whatever is the foundation for your being, that whole foundation will be shaken. When the foundation is shaken, naturally you don’t have anything to hold on to.
So understand that when something moves away from us, our whole body suffers. When we move away from the physical body the same suffering starts happening in us. Whatever we thought was a foundation for our life is shaken. Everything will be totally shaken and appear as black and white! At that time, they will not have any basis at all. In them, we will not be able to find any space where we can rest. That is the reason why death is always a suffering. But at that moment, if we can have a conscious glimpse, or glimpse of consciousness from our past, then we can consciously enter into death!
Let me explain further. If we understand this concept completely, we will not develop attachment to whatever we think of as 4D. We may enjoy them but our personality will not be built on the outer space – our name, our fame, what society speaks about us, etc.. We will become intelligent, and when we are living, we will create at least one part of the foundation or one pillar in the other dimension that is spirituality!
That is what the Bhagavad Gita says: what comes and stands in our mind at the time of leaving the body will alone decide about our next birth or enlightenment. If we have at least one pillar on consciousness, naturally we will not have suffering when we leave the body.
As of now we have no pillar to take us through, that is the problem. As of now, our whole personality is based on the outer space. All our pillars are made up of what we think is 4D now. And there is no inner space for us either. That is why, like a football, people can kick us from corner to corner in the outer space. Anybody can just throw one word towards us to make us depressed. If somebody says we are mad, we shout at them and prove that we are mad! A single word is enough to make us mad. Nothing much is necessary. We are almost like the street dogs – if we just throw one stone at it, it becomes mad. If anybody throws one word at us, it is enough to make us mad or depressed. This happens only because we don’t have strength in the inner space. Please understand that if we build at least one pillar based on our inner space, this pillar will shine in 4D at the time of death and help us leave the body beautifully. Read more: The Door to Enlightenment by Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
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