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The
Mother Answers—Fear of Death - III
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"Domain
of death'' means what?
Every religion has spoken about it differently. The Greeks
had their "Elysium'', one crossed over in a "boat''.
There are all the paradises, all the hells.
No,
not religions.
Generally, "domain of death'' is the name given to a
certain region of the most material vital into which one is
projected at the moment one leaves one's body. The part—how
to put it?—of one's life that's usually the most conscious
is projected there at the moment of death. Well, that region,
that material vital world is very dark, it is full of adverse
formations having desires at their centre or even adverse
wills, and these are very, very elemental entities which have
a very fragmentary life and are like vampires, in the sense
that they feed on all that is thrown out from human beings.
And so, at that moment, from the shock of death—for very
few die without a shock, go out consciously, in full knowledge
of the thing, there are not many such—usually it is an
accident: a last accident; well, at that shock of death, those
entities rush in upon this, upon this vitality that goes out,
and feed upon it. So long as a person is alive, they cannot
touch him. For, you have all had the experience of a nightmare
in which, when the situation becomes really very dangerous,
suddenly you wake up—you come back into your body, for
the body is your protection. In the physical they can do nothing
to you but when you are completely outside the physical (and
even this link I spoke about serves as a protection to a certain
extent when you go out), but if the links are broken and you
are entirely without a body, well, unless you take advantage
of special circumstances... as for instance when a person
is much loved by others who are yet alive; if at that moment
these people who love him concentrate their thought and love
on the departed one, he finds a refuge therein, and this protects
him completely against those entities; but one who passes
away without anyone's having a special attachment for him,
either because he is surrounded by people he has harmed and
who do not love him or by people who are in a terribly unconscious
state—he is like a prey delivered to these forces. And
that indeed is an experience that's difficult to bear. They
cannot touch anything else except what belongs to their own
domain, that is, the most material vital—the higher vital
escapes them altogether, they can do nothing there. And so,
this material vital goes out but the other remains; and this
higher vital is attacked by other dangers, simply that. And
if it also disappears, the mind remains. But behind all this
is the psychic being which nothing can touch, which is above
all possible attacks, and it indeed is free to go where it
wants. Usually—unless it has a special opportunity and
has reached a state of complete development—it goes to
rest in the psychic worlds. There it enters into a kind of
beatific contemplation in which it remains, and this is an
assimilation of all its experiences, and when it has finished
assimilating them and resting, well, it starts preparing to
come down again for a new life. That being nothing can touch.
But so very few are conscious of their psychic that one can
hardly say that it is such and such a person whom one has
known, for people as we know them are made of what?—of
all their physical experiences, all their vital reactions,
all their mental formations—that is, the body, the character,
the thought—and with these we have a human being! Well,
all that cannot persist after death unless it is organised
and centralised around the psychic being and to the extent
it is perfectly unified with the psychic. Otherwise all this
mixture is dissolved and the psychic being alone remains,
at times just as a flame, at times as a completely conscious
being.
This of course is the general law. Now there are bridges,
as it were, "protected passages'' which have been built
in the vital world in order to cross over all these dangers.
There are atmospheres which receive people leaving their body,
give them shelter, give them protection. There are all kinds
of other conditions; what I have told you just now is the
normal state of those who die, of ordinary human beings, but
as soon as we come to a little higher type of humanity, all
these conditions change. The general law remains unless there
is a special higher development within the being. There are
people with so total a cohesion in their being that they no
longer depend upon the body—not at all—whether it
be there or not there.
But all this development does not come about just like that,
simply by thinking about it from time to time, desiring it
still less often and forgetting it most of the time—no,
it is not like that that it can happen. These are disciplines,
I may say, at least as arduous as the strictest spiritual
disciplines... Essentially it is for this that we are on the
earth. Truly speaking, human beings were made for this purpose,
to do that work, and it is perhaps because they refuse to
do it that there is so much chaos in the world. If they did
it truly, things would go much better.
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10 March 1954
- The Mother
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