A Reshuffling of Atoms

What is death?

In nature there is no such thing as death but only a reshuffling of atoms. Death occurs only when there is a need for atoms to maintain the balance of energy in the universe. This organism has no way of finding out that it was born at a particular point of time and is going to die at another point of time, and also that it is living at this moment and not dead.

If you ask me the question “Are you alive?” I would say that I am alive. Because the question is born out of the idea of how a living human being functions, acts, and thinks. That is an idea, so naturally, if you ask dead?” I would say I am very much alive, because that question brings all the knowledge that we have about the behavior patterns of living human beings. But we have no way of experiencing the fact that this is a living thing. You see, thought id dead. It is trying to capture something that is living pulsating.

Does the body have the understanding minus the thoughts?

The heart does not for a moment know that it is pumping blood. It is not asking the question. “Am I doing it right?” It is just functioning. It does not ask. “Is there any purpose?” To me, that question has no meaning. The questions, “Is there any meaning?” Is there any purpose?” take away the living quality of life. You are living in a world of ideas.

Is there life after death?

When people ask me whether there is any such thing as reincarnation, my answer is that there is reincarnation for those who believe in it, and there is no reincarnation for those who do not believe in it. If you ask a fundamental question, “Is there any such thing as reincarnation as the other laws in nature like gravity?” my answer would be negative. It is not as much part of nature as gravity is. But if you want to believe that it is so, it is a different matter.

 The belief in reincarnation is born out of the demand that something will continue after your so-called death. It is the same mechanism which wants to know what will happen after death. For exactly the same reason you are asking the question. “Is there any meaning is there any purpose in life?” For some reason that mechanism, that movement of thought, does not want to come to an end.

You have seen people dying there. So, the belief that there is a centre here, that there is a spirit here, that there is a soul here, is what is responsible for that belief, that there must be something beyond. But if you want to know if there is anything beyond you have to die now. When the question or belief about that comes to an end, death will take place here right now. Clinical death will take place.

Then the question whether there is an afterlife would not at all arise, because the living organism has no way of knowing that it is alive. The belief has to go. The end of belief is death.

Thought is your energy. Mind shattering conversation with the man.