Nice reminder, that alone is worth $35.00 :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@...> wrote:
>
> The different experience of dying by the ignorant and the enlightened.
>
> Maharishi:
>
>
> When an ordinary man leaves his body it's a very great pain. When a realized
> man leaves the body it's the experience of greatest happiness-bliss. Why?
> Because the state of enlightenment comes by many times becoming unaware of
> the body. Metabolic rate comes to nil. Million times the metabolic state has
> come to nil. And in that state what we had experienced? Bliss
> consciousness-during meditation. Because the state of enlightenment is the
> result of millions of times getting to that time of pure awareness,
> transcendental, that means physically the body comes to that restfulness,
> comes to that restfulness, comes to that restfulness. .....
>
> During meditation the mind becomes finer and finer and finer, and then
> disassociates itself with the body.
> Prana also-that is breath- becomes finer and finer and finer and finer, and
> then eventually in the transcendental consciousness, disassociates itself
> with the body.
> So, senses: based on the finer aspect of the senses start function finer,
> finer, finer, finest aspect of the senses start functioning. And then the
> senses remain behind, the area of the senses remains behind and they are no
> more in the transcendental awareness.
>
> What is happening during that: the prana is disassociating itself from the
> body, and the mind disassociates itself from the body, senses disassociating
> themselves from the body. All this disassociation of the subtle body, or the
> inner man, has been a habit. And the experience has been: when all these
> disassociate from the body, then bliss consciousness is the direct
> experience. And therefore, as long as the machinery is functioning with the
> disassociation of these subtle aspects, the experience is that of pure
> consciousness or bliss consciousness. So the last experience that the body
> can give will be of bliss consciousness when the subtle body starts
> disassociating itself and drops off. This is the time of death. So the death
> of an enlightened man is just the same phenomenon of transcending and gaining
> transcendental consciousness.
>
> Whereas in the case of others who have not experienced the inner man's
> disassociation from the body-who have never experienced that-then it is a
> very terrible thing for the eyesight to disassociate itself from the eyes.
> It's a very terrible thing for the sense of touch to disassociate itself from
> the hands. Like that. Very terrible experience of pain. Very great. For the
> sense of hearing to disassociate itself from the ears, from the whole
> machinery.
>
> You can imagine how a man cries if his house is not insured [laughter]. If he
> is not hooked to safety, not insured then if the house begins to fall and
> burns away, he cries out and sees that oh, what beautiful ceiling I made,
> with such great labor and such great love and this and this, and now it is
> falling off and falling off and falling off. Everything that he built so
> dearly and with such great love and joy and labor, all that, is falling off.
> He starts crying at the fall of everything. Such a great pain at the time of
> death-for someone who has not known how to disassociate himself from his
> body.
>
> And in TM, every time we get disassociated from the body, at that time the
> experience is bliss consciousness. Great experience! It's like someone whose
> insurance is much greater than the value of the house [laughter]. When it
> begins to burn, he puts a little more petrol there [laughter]. He enjoys
> that. Because it is hooked to safety. So it's no loss.
>
> So, the experience of death of an enlightened man is the same experience of
> transcending when we meditate. So that is bliss to the enlightened and the
> greatest suffering to the ignorant. This is the difference. And that's
> why-he's always ready to die. Doesn't matter what. Always ready to die means:
> he is not ready to DIE, but he doesn't mind dying anytime.
>
> --- H.H. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Squaw Valley, 1968
>