I. mediteer -3

The master of the house is going to leave his abode.

And so, the house is becoming forlorn and gloomy.

At this crucial moment of death, a man feels himself going. He feels he is drowning, that he is finished forever. This sense of drowning, of dying, of everything ending, brings on such a flood of nervousness, anxiety and anguish, that in his suffering, he deprives himself of the experience of death.

It requires great peace of mind, to know death, to acknowledge it. We have died so many times. So many times we have left this mortal frame. But every time, we suffer this mental agony, and so miss the experience. And the ultimated knowledge eludes us.

Remains inaccessible to us.

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Every time...

death has ever knocked at our door.

Évery time we have ever encountered it...

we have not been able to see it.

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At the time of death...

it is not possible to know it.

But there cán be a planned death through yoga.

What happens in meditation is... that what automatically and naturally occurs in death... is precípitated by certain activities and efforts of the meditator. He shrinks his whole life-force. And directs it inside.

Since the effort is his own... and only an experiment... he suffers no anxiety. He simply endeavors to redirect his life-force inside. And he accomplishes this in a tranquil frame of mind.

Then he is able to understand...

that the body and the spirit...

are two different things.

~osho~
the long the short...
(1967?) - ch.5