G) FAITH IN GOD AND SPIRITUAL REALITY
In order to be able to really let go, we need to have a certain amount of faith in the truth of our spiritual nature and in the existence of God. Without the faith that nothing harmful will happen to us, it will be difficult to relax and let go. Faith in God is an all-covering shield against all the problems of life, i.e. fear, anxiety, worry, doubt, an a lack of security.
One who has faith in God fears neither life nor death, because he is sure that God will protect him in every situation. He may be tested and made to pass through various difficulties but these are blessings in disguise. Through these tests, he grows more emotionally, mentally and spiritually matures. Faith in God is indeed a great asset when facing one’s own or another’s death.
One who is able to have such faith, simply attends to his responsibilities towards himself, his family, society and God. He leaves all the results up to God. He makes his greatest effort without being attached to the results.
Thus, when the last moment comes, he feels that he has done his best and does not worry about whether he has succeeded or not; that is God’s business. He has the peace and contentment of knowing that he has done his best. He surrenders the results.
H) DETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY AND SENSES
The greater our attachment to the physical body and its needs, the more difficult it will be for us when we have to leave it. Our attachments, desires and sensual attractions will pull us downwards making death a difficult, painful and disturbing experience.
But this is not only true of death. These attachments and addictions also make life more painful and difficult, for we are seldom able to fulfill these desires and addictions as much as we would like, and consequently spend much of our time in discontentment and unhappiness.
Satya Sai Baba has said that, «the richest man is the man with the least desires, and the poorest man is the man with the most desires». The more simply we learn to live, the happier we are. All religions advocate austerity or learning to control the desires of the body to a reasonable extent. Every religion offers us techniques such as prayer, fasting, spiritual retreating and various types of vows through which we can develop the power of will over the desire nature. This is an essential process for one who wants spiritual evolution or one who would like to be ready to face death at every moment.
Death requires our being able to leave our sensual pleasures and enjoyments. If we are not ready to leave them, how will we be able to calmly face death? We will feel the pain of separation from our sources of enjoyment.
As we learn to experience joy from within, not needing stimulation from without in the form of food, drink, cigarettes, sex, movies etc., we will develop a permanent state of inner peace and contentment which needs few forms of external help.
This is useful both for life and death. The freer a person is in life, the freer his death will be. Through this discipline of the desire nature, we can gradually strengthen our character. We can then be braver in facing life and death, for we will have nothing to fear, nothing to lose, because our center of satisfaction is within us.
One must not, however, overdo such disciplines and harm the body or mind in any way. The goal is not self-punishment but detachment and freedom from desire. We are seeking freedom from the ego.
We come to the Earth over and over, because only our body dies and not our ego. If our ego were to die, then we would be born spiritually and need not be born again. Sai Baba says we must cross out the «I» in order to get the cross on which Christ was crucified. The feeling of «I» must be crucified so that the inner spiritual self can be born. Then there is no need for reincarnating.
Jesus said, «Until a man be born again (spiritually), he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven». He also said, «Until a man becomes perfect, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven».
The ways in which we can work towards this spiritual rebirth are basically four:
1) Through LOVE for God and our fellow men.
2) Through SELFLESS SERVICE to all of humanity.
3) Through WISDOM of the truth of our spiritual nature.
4) Through the CONTROL OF THE MIND and merging our mind in the Divine.
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