Stopped In Our Tracks
Stories of U.G. In India from the Notebooks of K. ChandrasekharTranslated and Edited by J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty 2d/3d Series
Birth and Death
There is no use of your talking as if you are born. You are never born and you never die. How can there be any death when you are not born? Neither your birth nor your death can become part of your experiencing structure. That experiencing structure must come to an end. Your body is not in a position to take it. Otherwise, you cannot die. The death always takes place in an unconscious state. You will never die in a conscious state. Why do you want to wait till your body becomes useless? You might as well die to the whole thing and begin to live, live in the sense that you understand that there is no beginning and no end.
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The senses are functioning at their peak capacity all the time. They cannot go on. So every now and then—that is decided by the circumstances and not by any entity inside—the defenses must be cut out from outside challenges. So the eyes may be open but you see nothing, because the senses are tired.
This body, this nervous system, cannot stand that. It is its physical death. You come to the point of physical death. It is not the death of the mind, death of the psyche, or the death of thought. The body goes through the process of physical death, and why it comes back God alone knows.
The senses are functioning at their peak capacity all the time. They cannot go on. So every now and then—that is decided by the circumstances and not by any entity inside—the defenses must be cut out from outside challenges. So the eyes may be open but you see nothing, because the senses are tired.
This body, this nervous system, cannot stand that. It is its physical death. You come to the point of physical death. It is not the death of the mind, death of the psyche, or the death of thought. The body goes through the process of physical death, and why it comes back God alone knows.
