Lessons Enlightenment. Elena SidelnikovaЧитать онлайн книгу.
person does not die. It seems like they chose it, but somehow they were miraculously saved, or someone intervened. This means that the possibility and necessity – determined by many moments and circumstances and being specific energetic states – did not align. But at some point, these two moments do coincide. Perhaps before this, in the preceding hours or days, the person was not seeking death and was full of plans. But precisely in that second, these two requirements – possibility and necessity – aligned, and therefore death occurred.
Because death is like a flash. And enlightenment is like a flash. «Possibility» is the combustible material. «Necessity» is the match, the fuse. If they come together, a flash occurs. If not, it doesn’t. The match burns out without having anything to ignite. The combustible material has the potential to ignite but lacks the fuse or match to set it on fire.
So, throughout your life, you prepare yourself as combustible material for the consciousness to ignite. And there is always the life-giving fire next to you, the fuse that can ignite you. But until you have accumulated enough «combustible material,» you will not ignite. Or you may ignite, but quickly burn out.
For many, a teacher, guru, or master serves as that match or fuse, helping you ignite with their fire. But the same teacher, guru, or master spends a long time preparing you as combustible material, purging you of everything that cannot burn, everything that hinders your ignition. And this is the path of enlightenment. Both the path of enlightenment and death are essentially the same process. Because at the moment of death, you become enlightened. But you become enlightened not in the physical body, as enlightened masters do in earthly incarnations. Therefore, enlightenment is akin to death, the death of your physical form. If you are not ready to die, then you are not ready for enlightenment.
In the case of the death of the physical body, it simply dies because it is exhausted from resisting the process of enlightenment. In the case of real enlightenment in life, you burn away your prejudices, your beliefs, your attachments, all your personal characteristics that you call the «ego,» and thus become free from the physical world. And you exist in it as an observer. Essentially, the life of each of you is just a path to enlightenment, and there is no other. Enlightenment is the path to God, the path to the Creator, as they say, the realization of your unity with everything. And you walk this path of enlightenment your entire life. But your whole life, you resist this path. Because you have fears. Because your memories of past lives are blocked. And they are blocked for your own good, otherwise, your mind might not be able to handle many details of your past experiences. You don’t believe in your capabilities; therefore, you fear death because you have been instilled with various paradigms and norms that you cannot break away from. All this prevents you from living enlightened. A child is born enlightened, with a pure consciousness. However, your upbringing imposes many restrictions on it; you teach it to resist the process of life, that is, to resist the process of enlightenment, the striving for enlightenment, and death. Therefore, at the end of life, your physical bodies, like many other lower bodies, become so tired of this resistance that they disintegrate, and you become enlightened consciousness, but lose some of your forms.
Thus, death and enlightenment are one and the same process. It’s just that in the first case, it happens unconsciously and is not controlled by you. In the second case, you move towards it consciously and learn to manage this process. Therefore, those who seek enlightenment must part with the fear of death, for they are one and the same.
And what about meditation?
Don’t rush. On the path of unity, on the path of enlightenment, there are many obstacles and hidden pitfalls for you. Therefore, I am trying to explain to you the essence of the process. Meditation is the path of overcoming and dissolving within yourself all the obstacles on your path to death or enlightenment. So, the first step you need to take in your consciousness is to accept death, but not as an inevitability, but as a necessity. And to be ready to die at any second. Because only then will the possibility and necessity of this align. Only then will you learn to align these two possibilities within yourself every second. This does not mean that you will die. It means that you will always be ready to ignite. And the only thing left for you to do is to accumulate enough combustible material for ignition. And as soon as you accumulate it within yourself, as soon as your consciousness becomes fit for ignition – you will ignite with the fire of enlightenment. As long as you fear death, this will not happen in life. But after accumulating enough material for combustion, perhaps at the moment of death, you will ignite with the fire of enlightenment, because each of you goes through this stage in your afterlife.
How can one learn not to fear death?
By contemplating it. Not by imagining how you will die, but by reflecting on what you will lose if you do. Detach yourself in advance, even before death, from everything you are attached to, everything you cannot let go of. That’s why there are so many practices where people renounce wealth, material possessions, sex, and pleasures. They retreat into solitude to reject external stimuli and delve deeply within themselves. All of this is aimed at parting with everything that holds you in your physical form – everything that prevents you from becoming pure fuel for ignition. So to speak, this is what does not «burn,» that is, the feelings and sensations that bind you to this part of the labyrinth of illusions with iron chains, which cannot ignite.
But people say that our thoughts create reality. And if I start contemplating death, won’t I attract it? I’ve been told that the main reason people die is because they allow thoughts of death. In old age or youth, they either call upon it in weakness or fear it in health, and thus it comes. I’ve been told that if you learn never to think about death, you can live a very long time in physical form.
That’s true. But your question indicates that you are afraid of death.
It’s not so much that I’m directly afraid, but I still don’t want to die yet. Isn’t there a way for a person to choose their time of death when they are ready for it?
Of course, there is. But that’s not the point. The question is not when you will die or how long you will live, or whether you will die at a time of your choosing. The real question is: how much are you striving for enlightenment in this life? If you choose to explore your life in all its details, pleasures, nuances, and possibilities, then you are simply wandering through the labyrinth of illusions. You are choosing to explore it consciously rather than stumbling through it blindly. Imagine the labyrinth as having walls lined with screens, each showing different lives and realities. You can step into each screen and experience the life or game behind it. If before, you stumbled upon these screens accidentally and entered different situations unconsciously, now you want to consciously explore them all.
That’s why you don’t want to leave the labyrinth of illusions, and that’s why you want to prolong your physical life or return to it again – because, metaphorically speaking, you haven’t traveled enough or played enough with these illusions. You can also imagine this as a tree you are climbing, moving along the branches of this wondrous tree and exploring them. Each branch bears different fruits, and you want to taste them all. But if you are only focused on reaching upward, uninterested in the branches or fruits, you aim directly for the sun along the trunk. This happens when you have tasted all the fruits, or you are no longer interested and don’t want to wait. Then you channel your consciousness straight toward enlightenment. In this case, thoughts of death become simply a readiness to rise, a readiness to abandon all the fruits with their tastes and aromas. This is the desire for ignition. You are like a candle with a wick inside. But all that wax surrounding the wick – your life’s wax – is very impure, and because of this, the wick either cannot ignite or burns very weakly.
Throughout your life, your life’s wax gradually burns away, and the candle smolders. But when the candle burns down completely, you become the fire – a brief flare where the body of the candle, its life wax, fully dissolves. And then you die. But if, while still alive, you manage to dissolve all the life’s excess wax, the body of the candle, and free the wick – your divine spirit embedded within