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YB WEB DESK. Dated: 4/6/2021 11:17:55 AM
WHY DEATH RITUALS ARE SIGNIFICANT
Death rituals are not just for psychological solace, but come from a deep understanding of how the human system functions. Here is the explanation of the important role of death rituals for both the living and the dead. This body is an accumulation. It is a piece of Earth that we have slowly picked up. Whatever we have picked up in body, we have to drop back atom by atom. When it comes to the mind, the discretionary intellect also gets dropped with the process of death. This whole information that is gathered – the subtler body and the subtler mind and the information that is referred to as karma, the software – is still intact, but the discretion is gone. If you go into a pleasant state of existence, it is called heaven. If you go into an unpleasant state of existence, it is called hell. These are not geographical locations but experiential realities. Let us say today you read that the stocks are down and you lost so much money. But you have enough discretion to think, "Okay, it's alright I've lost that, but I still have this. Let me be happy today,” and you can involve yourself in something and be happy.