How to Conquer Death

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Om Namah Sivaya

Extract from the Chhandogya Upanishad

This body is the city of Brahman.

In the heart of this city,

There is a little space shaped like a lotus,

Within which he lives.

Find Him and realize Him.

What is there to find? For what reason?

That little space within the heart is as large as the

Infinite universe outside; the heaven and the earth.

Fire and wind, the sun and the moon,

Lightning and the stars all are contained in it.

If you say, "What happens to all beings, all desires,

All that exists in it, when old age comes, decay begins

And the body dissolves in death?"

When old age comes and body decays, this reality

Within the body does not decay.

When the body dies This does not die.

This space inside the body is in truth the city of Brahman.

Brahman lives here as the inner Self of all beings.

He is beyond sin

And sorrow, old age and death,

Beyond all hunger and thirst. All selfless desires are

Contained in him and he fulfills all desires that are right.

Here on earth people do what they are told to do by others

Or are led by the customs, traditions and law of the land

Or they do what they want to do, be it ruling a country

Or owning a piece of land.

Earthly pleasures are finite, after reaching a point

They come to an end, so are the pleasures of heaven.

Those who die without realizing their real Self,

The divinity within, have no freedom and no peace

In life or death. But those who have realized the Self,

Are ever free both here and hereafter,

They get what they truly desire.

Our selfless desires are covered by selfish ones

And for this we do not have this power: therefore, when

Our loved ones die we cannot see them again.

All desires, whether to see our loved ones who are alive

Or dead or to acquire objects hard to get, are fulfilled

When we realize the Self in meditation, entering the lotus

Of the heart where the Lord lives.

(The objects of all desires are given by the Lord

Who dwells within, being concealed by our vain desires

And selfish preoccupations.)

Like a person who walks on the ground but does not

Know the gold that lies underneath, day after day

We come in touch with the Lord in deep sleep,

But we do not know him.

The Self dwells in the lotus of the heart and for this

He is known as the Lord of the heart. A sage knows this

And in meditation he visits this temple in the heart,

Day after day he enjoys the kingdom of heaven inside.

 

Sivaya Namah

 

 

 

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