What happens after death?

Q: Guruji, please give us Gyaan (knowledge)?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: For that you have to ask questions. Knowledge means you have to pull it out.

Q: What happens after death?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What happens after death is the mind gets freed from the body, the spirit.

The mind has memory and intelligence, so these two things become like a balloon. The karma, the

deepest impressions form a balloon. It is like in sleep.

Death is nothing but a long sleep. Before going to sleep, see the last thought that you get, and as

soon as you wake up, see what is the first thought that comes. Have you noticed? It will variably be

the same though.

So the physical body decays and the pranic body with all the impressions forms a balloon and leaves

the body and hangs around.

Don’t imagine a balloon hanging around! It is a light; an energy.

I will give you the best example. In a television station, they conduct a program and then they

transmit it through the dish and the program remains in the atmosphere – it is the same way.

When you send an email from the computer, you type all the letters and then you press the send

button. What happens? It goes into the space. Does your email remain in the space till it is

downloaded? Even after several days you can download your email. Even one year later or ten years

later you can download an email. There is no expiry date, isn’t that so. It is not like those greeting

cards which sometimes people send you that expire in 24 hours.

The messages or letters you send don’t hang as letters in the space, it remains in the space as

energy.

Like that every soul is a particular frequency and every thumb is different because a thumb is like a

particular cell phone chip.

So after death, every individual energy stays, and the impressions it has taken, accordingly to that

it experiences those stages there. But then after sometime that soul comes back.

The soul enters the body at three times – this is all a secret. It is called the birth secret and death

secret.

So the soul enters at the moment of conception, or it enters in the fifth month, or at the time of

birth. So the three sections are there, but there is no way to determine when it enters.

So if at conception time it comes then what one should do to care for that?

Keep yourself happy. Usually pregnant women are kept very happy in India. Whatever she wants is

provided to her.

I would say, don’t watch all these violent movies, and scary songs, and scary things. Generally light

flute music would be good because it is soothing. It is good to listen to music, knowledge and

wisdom. All these things would be preferable.

The soul also chooses where to be born, the place to come. According to its wish it will just come

there.

Q: What is love?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The basis of all existence.

All the cells in your body love each other, that is why they are together. The day they stop loving

each other, it all disintegrates. Got it?

If there is one substances by which everything is held together and you want to give it a name, you

can call it love. Love is not all wiggly wiggly and mushy mushy, ‘Oh I can’t live without you, I love

you so much’, and so on. It is not that. That is just an emotional something. Love means (silence)…

that is it.

Love is indescribable. You can’t describe it. And there is not a creature on this planet which

doesn’t know it. Got it?

From the sea to the birds, from a chicken to an enlightened person, everybody has experienced

love. Love for life is what we think it is, but life itself is love. So see through this knowledge that

this whole universe is love.

Love is an existence not just an emotion. Emotion is also love, but the existence itself is love.

The Earth loves the Sun that is why it keeps going around the sun. The Moon loves Earth that is why

the Moon goes around the Earth. Wherever there is a force or there is energy or a pull or

attraction, you call it love. And where there is repulsion that is also love in the opposite direction.

Got it?

You are drawn to somebody or something, why? Because you love it.

You see a cheese cake and you are drawn to it, why? There is a pull.

You see a beautiful girl or a girl sees a beautiful boy, there is a pull, and what do you call that? You

call it love! Why? It is because there is a pull, there is an attraction, there is a force. And that force

is what manages the whole universe.

Some places it is more obvious and some other places, it is not obvious. The day the Earth stops

loving you, you will start flying. The Earth loves you so much that the gravitational force keeps you

glued to the earth. Did you get it?

So love is that force in human life. And all the negative emotions are also a distorted form of love

only.

In anger there is love. Ask me how? You love perfection and that is why you get angry. Greed is

love. Greed is when you love something much more than life. When you love objects more than

life, it is called greed. Hatred is love upside down. Fear is love upside down.

Q: Guruji, my mother passed away on Christmas. Is there any special meaning to this?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Well, do you know around the world, many people die on Christmas day or

New Year day. Death knows no dates. Got it?

So, you feel uncomfortable because she died on that day which you celebrate. But another way of

looking at it is – on that day she became bigger. She got over here suffering, her sickness from

being in the body. She got liberated. So that is a good thing for her. It is a Christmas gift to her

from nature, from God. Think that way, then your mind will be at peace and you can celebrate

Christmas.

She got liberated on Christmas day. And on Christmas day she ascended. Isn’t this a better way to

see? So celebrate her liberation and her freedom.

Source : Quotes from Sri Sri Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-iaQF-ipg&feature=player_embedded