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Namah Vol. 26, Issue 1, 24th April 2018

the significant landmarks achieved are leads to the depths of one’s inmost recesses
preserved in the memory traces of the cosmic to access the essence of the being. Indeed it
Inconscience to act as templates for future would be a tragedy to die without utilising
creations. If Braahma of the Indian trinity the freedom and opportunity to create a more
creates and SSiva dissolves creation, Vissnnu illumined future life. In Buddhist parlance,
the Great Preserver has to maintain the the greater tragedy would be the resultant
memory traces ‘in between’ creations in his inability to come out of the misery of future
timeless slumber so beautifully portrayed in meaningless lives.
his reclining poise of anantassayana.
Preparation
Likewise, when an individual departs,
the significant impressions of a life-time This means that one has to be prepared for
encrypted in the soul-essence outlive the a meaningful death. People believe that
life-span and remain as memory traces in death would automatically give one rest
the cosmic consciousness to act as templates and respite so that the soul is ready for its
for future lives. In the Integral vision of Sri onward journey. But this does not happen
Aurobindo and The Mother, this soul-essence from the occult point of view. The demise of
is represented by the Psychic Being that is the the body does not imply that all the desires,
evolving poise of the soul and travels from vital longings and strong attachments of the
birth to birth, projecting a distinct outward subject get vaporised. On the contrary they
personality in each birth in consonance with the remain in the ambience. The Mother explains,
cultural milieu and Zeitgeist of that era. If an “When you die you lose only your body and at
individual has lived a worthy life with intensely the same time the possibilities of relation with
lived moments, if one has had the good fortune and action on the material world. But all that
of receiving inspired knowledge, enjoyed belongs to the vital world does not disappear
unmotivated bliss, if one has cultivated lofty with the material substance; all your desires,
values, if one has been through creative attachments, cravings persist with the sense
forays, then the essence of all such mighty of frustration and disappointment, and all that
moments are preserved in the Psychic Being, prevents you from finding the expected peace.
carried beyond the life-span, ‘in between’ To enjoy a peaceful and eventless death you
births to act as templates for future lives. must prepare for it (4).”

The individual has therefore a great respons- The great Master, Padma Sambhava, had
ibility, greater than earning one’s livelihood, chronicled in the eighth or ninth century
fulfilling one’s ambitions or maintaining the meticulous experiments carried out by
one’s family. The individual is responsible Tibetan monks to prepare for a meaningful
for creating a more beautiful and harmonious death with creative potentials for future lives.
future life in future births. One need not This required a charting of a road-map ‘in
ponder over the future but live the present between’ death and rebirth, the preparation
life in intense inner moments that raises one for traversing this road map by those who
to the highest superconscient experiences, were still living and a step by step assistance
widens one to the cosmic consciousness and to the departed by his fellow-monks for an

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