04 nov 2018 stvdv Sanathana Dharma
I'm making a Presenation about what happens after Death in different Religions!
I'd be kind of you if you could post your view on what happens after Death and what Religion you are part of!
Welcome to the RF forum and wish you the best with your presentation
Below is my personal view. Others following Sanathana Dharma may totally disagree with me. That's fine. It's all a creation anyway. I see this is in the debate section. Lots of stuff to disagree and debate on of course, but I won't participate if others start debating my views
I spend time in India with a Master who was teaching in the line of "Sanathana Dharma" in english translated something like "the eternal religion".
Once I stopped eating and drinking and after quite some time I did go through this so called tunnel of light and I met with My Master. Obviously
I did not go through after that. So from this experience I can only speak. This so called tunnel of light is "real", amazing and wonderful. Then you meet with your Master; being Catholic I guess it will be Jesus; real too. I do like to find out what happens after that, but in the moment I have other things I decided to do first
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From Sanathana Dharma I learned that "Consciousness", the Indian definition, so not what people in the West think "awareness of stuff around you". The Indian meaning goes much deeper, to the root of existence, from which everything originates (western "awareness" is created in "Consciousness").
So "Consciousness" is the substratum on which this illusion (called maya in Sanathana Dharma) is superimposed, like a movie is superimposed on the screen when you go to the cinema. We are aware that the movie is just an illusion, though some people sometimes get so involved in the movie and thereby forget it's just a movie on the screen; watching a horror movie some even start screaming.
The movie above is called illusion (maya). And in Sanathana Dharma they also call the world and our body, emotions, mind etc. illusion. So atheists are partly right.
This "Consciousness" is amazing. Anything can be created.So when you believe in Jesus you will meet with Jesus when dying. But even better. If you pray to Jesus while alive He might appear even now. Of course this is all illusion, the same illusion as when you meet with your girlfriend. All is created in the mind, and from there it can take material forms. Depends how hard you work on your creation.
So coming to your question "what happens after death"
I am not this body, nor this mind, nor my emotions. Who am I? Or like Shakespeare said "To Be or Not To Be". I believe only "Consciousness" is real. So there is no dying when seen from this view. When you believe you are the body, there is a lot of dying when you die. A lot of things to let go, a lot of change I believe.
I never remembered my previous lives (I did have visions about other lives, but that's about it; anyway our past life is also just a superimposition on "Consciousness" just as this life is). So I can not so much be bothered with a past nor a future life. What happens after death? Most important to me is to live my life NOW as good as I can. That makes me happy and others also. That's a good goal for me. I do not have much attachment nor interest in this world (the superimposition part of it), so I prefer to communicate with "my God". The one I believe in, so the one that is real to me (even more real than the bodies I see around me; because it keeps me more "awake" realizing "Consciousness" is the reality). So from all the illusions in this world I find "God" the most interesting illusion. Especially when I experience more and more the wonders that come along with this "God" creation of mine.
I have been reading a scripture called Yoga Vasistha. Reading this, I understand now that literally everything is possible. You can become a God yourself. Meaning you can create whatever you want. I am not advanced at all. But I do like the idea. At least for now, I derive happiness from all this. Learn a lot about myself.
So if it is all true, that you can create anything in this life I also believe that it is possible to create something for the moment when you "die".
Example: Great inventors yesterday created an interesting future today. 100 years ago people were living in huts under the ground where I live. Unbelievable. I am easily feeling cold, so I feel happy to be born not 100 years ago. I have a very small and simple house, but at least I am happy not to sleep under the ground. But now I know that if this were to happen "Consciousness" would create me feeling warm in the cold or this body might just die, which will happen anyway.
The same with whiners, they stay unhappy. Think creative and become your creation. I don't say it's possible to create a cut of leg, although I met an Italian yogi who broke 13 bones while being in a car accident, and while in the ambulance my Master appears to him telling him "you do yoga, no operation needed". All bones were healed within 4 days (ribs) to a couple of weeks (bigger bones like hip). When I met him 1 leg was still 3 inch shorter and he told me that my Master told him that in 2 years also this will be healed. Seeing him 2 years later this happened. So lots of creation is possible, but of course not all will be able to achieve this nor is this needed. That is what is called "Swadharma" in "Sanathana Dharma". Each person has his personal Dharma (path to live).
In the same line it must work with belief in God I believe. All is energy, so we create something and it will become real on a subtle level. There is so much more than only the worldly level. So magic might happen when you die. You can create this yourself
now in this life. I trusted my Master for the last 30 years and the moment I was close to dying I met with Him and I felt great. For me dying will be great. So I will continue my spiritual quest.
But in the end only "Consciousness" exists and is real. An amazing concept IMO, and I experience this more every day. The sky is the limit. Not to die but to live. When you realize you are this "Consciousness" you will live forever. So there is no death even. So in a way "Nothing happens after this so called `death`", or you can also say "The same that happens now, happens after this so called `death`".
Wish you well with your presentation. This is my view originating from Sanathana Dharma (the "Ethernal Religion")