Wednesday, 1 February 2012

The river of life

Life is something else. Life is before birth, life is BORN. Birth is a phenomenon which happens in life. Birth is not the beginning of life – if birth is the beginning of life, that means you were born dead. Birth is not the beginning of life – life PRECEDES birth. Life is presupposed, it is before birth –because life is there, birth happens. Life comes first, then there is birth. You ARE, even when you are not born. You are born because you were there before. And the same is the case with death. If you ARE before birth, then you WILL BE after death, because that which is before birth is bound to be after death. Life is something which happens in between birth and death, and beyond birth and death. We must think of life as a river: in this river one point is known as birth, another point is known as death, but the river continues. The river continues beyond death. The river was continuing before birth. This riverlike life must be penetrated – only then we can know that which is deathless. Of course that which is deathless is bound to be birthless... but our whole focus is just misguided. Our whole focus is on how to escape death, now how to know life. It is against death, not for life. This is the only flaw, and because of this we can never know the deathless. We will go on, continue, constantly searching, discovering new methods, new techniques, new ways of how to escape death.
And then death will be coming – and death will come.

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