This page includes a small selection from the many Divine Utterances (which Adi Da sometimes humorously called "Holy Mutterances") that Adi Da spoke or wrote from 1972 to 2008, on the topic of Death & Dying. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.
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"being" mortal organisms vs. Realizing Consciousness Itself
For human beings, death Is A Proposition and A Puzzle That Must Be Understood and Transcended (By Correct and Revealing Information, or Fullest Education, and By The Real Process Of self-Transcendence). There Is No Peace For human beings Until This Matter Is Resolved.
You are mortal, and entirely subject to the Mercy of the Divine. You own nothing, and you know nothing. No technique of meditation leads to the Divine Being, and there is nothing to be believed that is the Truth. Rather, you must be touched in your feeling by the unspeakable suffering of this world and return everything to the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Divine Person.
The gross (physical) human body is, literally, a death machine. It is not merely, in fact (or as a result of some future conditions), going to die — it is (now, and from its beginnings) patterned to die. Indeed, it intends to die, and even makesitself die. It progressively bringsitself to death.
Thus, from the moment of its birth (and even from its conception), the gross (physical) human body — in and of itself — is not about life, but about death. Therefore to truly be about life requires a unique and profound disposition.
"Right Human Life Must Transcend the Materialist 'Culture' of Death" (September, 2003) Adidam
When the death time comes, you do not know necessarily, but the body-mind-complex knows exactly how to do it and is completely capable of it. . . So death is no big deal. Living is the big deal. Transcending egoity while you are here, while you are alive, that is the big deal.
Everybody dies from time to time and simply falls into the subtler atmosphere of the earth and is born again. That's just the physics of this cycle of birth and death in which nothing really great is accomplished merely by dying.
Instead of fearing your death, intentionally use your life as a sacrifice. Make it a right and positive sacrifice, a service of love, of compassion, without self-concern. Not serving separate self — serving the Ecstasy of the Whole.
"The 'Reality' You Are Asking Questions About Is Your Own Illusion" (April 22, 1995) The Completing Discourses of the 25-Year Revelation
The one thing you fear is death, because you are holding on to your egoic self. If you give up your egoic self by turning to Me (moment to moment), you die as the ego-"I". You transcend the physical and mental limitations of the egoic self.
Real meditation is death. If you enter into it most profoundly, you must let what you fear happen. You must be willing to move into the shuddering that you know represents the last moment of life and the loss of consciousness in this particular form. Ultimately, you must be able to let meditation be that profound.
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life. There has been endless time of numberless deaths, but neither consciousness nor life has ceased to arise. The felt quality and cycle to death has not modified the fragility of flowers, even the flowers within the human body. Therefore, one's understanding of consciousness and life must be turned to that utter, inclusive quality, that clarity and wisdom, that power and untouchable gracefulness this evidence suggests. We must cease to live in our superficial and divided way, seeking and demanding only consciousness and life in the present form we grasp, avoiding and resisting what appears to be the end of consciousness and life in death.
The body-mind is a mere appearance floating in the Infinite Sea of Undifferentiated Happiness Which you visit, by My Grace, in Communion with Me, and even touch upon daily in the Grace of sleep. So much for death, then. So much for the daily news.
"The Infinite Sea of Undifferentiated Happiness" (August 15, 1995) The Completing Discourses of the 25-Year Revelation
Even though death rules to here, there is an indivisible eternal Sun over-head. And that eternal Sun is — beyond even all conditional visibility. . . . I Am that eternal Sun — the (Self-"Bright") Midnight Sun, apparently (and infinitely) above all-and-All, and always already free-Standing, beyond (or perfectly prior to) all-and-All.
While you live in conditional form, youmakemind — you create the psyche, through associations, repetitions, reinforcement. When you die and the body drops off, mindmakesyou — after death, you live in the world of mind as you have created it while alive.
"This Liberating Impulse" (February 1, 1985) Easy Death
Above all, tension and fear must be relaxed during the death process (as it must be in the case of a woman in childbirth). You must relax and release, as when going to sleep — in a feeling of deep trust, love, and surrender to the Divine Reality on Which the process depends.
There is Truth — but you have to deal with death. If it does not touch death, then it has nothing to do with Truth. Truth has to deal with death now — because "now" is a potential moment of death.
You must participate in death — and it is best to become congenial with it while alive. Begin to become involved in death as a psychic event, an energy-event — and (in due course) be relieved of your fear through the Spiritual process in My Avataric Divine Company.
Therefore, in order for death to be an ecstatic transition for you, you must not only study and prepare for the specific and terminal process of death itself, but (while alive) you must also devote yourself to an ecstatic (or ego-transcending) way of life.
If you practice ego-transcendence while alive — through the practice of the Way of Adidam that I have Revealed and Given to you — then the physical event of death is just another moment of a process that you have engaged all the while.
What I have to say to anyone who is immediately facing death is the same as what I have to say to all. All are confronting the same situation. Life is brief and mortal — and you cannot make it not be brief and mortal. But you can change the purposes by which you live, and stop living for egoic purposes. You can become a renunciate and live a Divine life.
My dear friend, Desmond, a 91 English gentleman, is seriously ill in hospital in Spain. Today, Adi Da, via These Divine Utterances, has spoken to Desmond. Beloved Adi Da is That Place where all and all must return. Beloved is one’s True Lap, Who embraces all and All if one is graced to surrender and die while still alive.
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