Santhara: A spiritual way,
not a suicide
Let me tell you a story: once some scientist were conducting
a research on tree frogs, and the frogs were leaping about 20 feet, so they cut
off one of the leg, they were leaping 15 feet , then they cut off two legs,
they were leaping 10 feet, then they cut off three legs frogs were leaping 5
feet with one leg, then they cut off all the leg, then they conclude that if
you cut off all the legs of frog it becomes ‘deaf’. Surface observations are not everything; this is something
that you have to realize within.
Why I am telling you this story, because there are so many
observer, who are calling ‘Santhara’ suicide, comparing it with mercy killing,
guys are you serious do you even know any thing about Santhara, this is
something that you can only realize within, let me try to
explain it to you:
‘Sama’ means equanimous and ‘Dhi’ means buddhi, intellect,
when your intellect becomes equanimous, when it loses its discriminatory
dimension and just becomes perception this is called Samadhi, there are 8
stages to complete the process of Samadhi, in Samadhi you walk out from your
body, without damaging it, like you drop your clothes for this you have to have
certain amount of mastery to do it. If the energies become feeble then physical
body can’t hold it, this is what old age and death is, because physical body
needs certain kind of energies and vibration to hold it. You pushed your energy
beyond a certain intensity, beyond also the physical body can’t hold it, so it
leaves, so when people consciously raise the pitch of their energies and leave
the body, we called it’ Jeev Samadhi, Maha Samadhi, he fixes a date and time,
for a particular moment and works towards it, death also with grace, isn’t it
wonderful.
In India Rationalist associations are there and they thinks
that they are revolutionary, if somebody is going for Samadhi, Rationalist
associations will thinks that they are committing suicides, my humble request
to all these pseudo-intellectual, please do you home work properly and
understand it, than start throwing up your gyan.
There are people who are calling ‘Santhara’ a suicide they are comparing it
with mercy killing, kya ho raha hai yeh
Buddha, Krishna, Mahaveer aur param yogi Shiva ki dharti par?
But why bother about these Hippocratic people, where people mourn
about ‘Beef Ban’ and sign petition against Yulin festival of China, they ignore
millions of death because of malnourishment, floods, lack of medical services, they
in fact ignore suicides of thousands of farmer every year, but want to Ban
‘Samadhi’ Taaliyaan iss khokhlepan ke
liye.
If tomorrow we will not be allowed to keep ‘Roza’ during
Ramzaan (you are hungry and you are hurting your body), if we are not allowed
fasting during Navratri, then what’s the point are we okay with it, I thought
this is the Era where we are fighting a spiritual war within, but the way
things are moving I am very sure one day we will not be allow to do many
things.
We are living in an age where killing a creature, just to
fill your stomach is a fashion, there is nothing left on this mother earth
which humans have not eaten. The other day Someone was having his chicken, and
talking to me about Jeev Hinsa. Such an irony!!!
If you believed in something, you should not have a
question; or that if you have a question, then you do not believe.
Let me finish this article with these lines:
Patthar abhi bhi
haathon mein hain,
Aur sheher taar-taar
bah raha hain,
Agli baari sar ki hai,
phir asmat par baat aayegi,
Dheere dheeresab
khatam, bas patthar hi rah jayege.
Peace out
Vivek Jain
