Conquering Death !!

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In the puranic lore of the Aryans, there are many cases,  where

death was conquered. Some examples are very interesting.

 

Markandeya :  Marnkandya rishi was granted only sixteen years of

life by the lord himself.  When the last moment arrived, he saw

death face to face. The story goes interestingly to say that when

Markandya rishi saw Yama coming, he embraced  the Shiva linga.  When

Yama threw his pasha to take away markandya's soul, the pasha

dragged shiva-linga also thus taking lord shiva with it.  Lord Shiva

who is himself the God of death, got infuriated by Yama's

misbehaviour, and killed him by opening his third eye.  Lord Shiva

got his name "Maha Mrityunjaya" from that day.

 

Later on request of all devas, Shiva revived Yama, asking him not to

take life of Markandya.  Thus Markandya rishi is one of the

chirinjivis (always living in body without death).  The death was

thus conquered by Rishi Markandya.

 

SAVITRI:  her husband Satyavan, died before her eyes.  She saw Yama

face to face, pulling satyam's linga sharira(astral body) from his

body.  She also saw the subtle body of her husband.  This subtle

body called "Angushtha-purusha" (thumb-sized individual) was a true

replica of her husband's physical body.  Savitri argued with Yama

and by her wits succeded in getting back the soul of her husband,

thus making him alive again.  This is another example of conquest of

death.

 

Shri Krishna performed yet another feat.  His guru Sandipani had

lost his son long ago.  The lad's jivaatma was in the other astral

world.  Krishna brought him back into the physical body (by

synthesising one body out of elements) and restored the son to the

parents.  Shri Krishna also revived Parikshit,(grandson of Arjuna)

after he was killed in the womb by Brah-astraa of  of Ashwathhama. 

Even a Maha-yogi can not perform such feats but since Krishna was

God himself he could easily mould the nature's laws for his Lila.

 

In Kathhopanishad Nachiketa saw the God Death (yama) after he had

left his mortal body behind and he had performed the rarest feat of

obtaining the secret of conquering death as a premle to Moksha from

Yama himself.  This was a revelation of a secret for the good of

mankind.  Thus, he possibly conquered anyone's death.  It behoves us

to try to understand the significance of Nachiketa's achievement and

investigate if there is any method shown legibly in tis wonderful 

story.

 

It is noteworthy that death conquered elsewhere did not involve a

path to Moksha.  Such a path, in the case of Nachiketa was shown by

the God himself tacitly.  For the sake of moksha, therefore, the

conquering of death has the approval of the gods in anyone's case. 

Otherwise, the law of death is inexorable.  Yoga is a science

already known to the mankind and its assistance can be taken.

 

What does conquering death imply??  The man who indulges in Karma is

one and one who reaps the results, is another due to the fact that

death and re-birth, although of the same soul, has broken the

continuity of its world experience.  Hence the average man is unable

to comprehend the Karma-result relationship.  The continuity of the

soul in different incarnations has only to be experienced to know

this secret of creation, and by then, the mystery is not only solved

but the ultimate threshold is open for the man, for a permanent

release from bondage….

 

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