The Lord of Death

Yama (Lord of Death) is as omnipresent as Siva! Yama is associated with the body (deha); He cannot affect the individual soul (jiva). The body is the essential vehicle for the individual soul to understand its real nature. Still, who knows when it may become the target for the attention of Yama, the master of the body? Who knows when this body will get entrapped in the coils of Yama's ropes? The individual soul, burdened with this easily destructible body, must pay attention to this fact and be all-eager to merge in Siva! People usually procrastinate tasks - yesterday's tasks are delayed to today and today's tasks to tomorrow. But the tasks of spiritual discipline are not of such a nature. The minute that just elapsed is beyond your grasp; so too, the approaching minute is not yours! Only that individual soul which has this understanding engraved in its heart can merge in Siva.

Baba (thought for the day)

Yama is known as the Lord of death, he looks very scary and ugly and here Baba is telling us that the omnipresent reality of him is Lord Siva. If we die in the body there is not God, but Yama present, he takes care of all those who didn't make it and still think they are the body.

The body is the vehicle for the soul to understand the real nature of the soul, if we think we are the body, dust we are and we will be gone with the body and by the samskaras, tendencies in the mind we get reborn and a new body, so we can start again and try again.

Yama (Lord of Death) is as omnipresent as Siva! Yama is associated with the body (deha); He cannot affect the individual soul (jiva). The body is the essential vehicle for the individual soul to understand its real nature. Still, who knows when it may become the target for the attention of Yama, the master of the body?

If we are identified with the individual soul he cannot affect the soul and when he has his attention on the body it means death.

Who knows when this body will get entrapped in the coils of Yama's ropes? The individual soul, burdened with this easily destructible body, must pay attention to this fact and be all-eager to merge in Siva! People usually procrastinate tasks - yesterday's tasks are delayed to today and today's tasks to tomorrow. But the tasks of spiritual discipline are not of such a nature. The minute that just elapsed is beyond your grasp; so too, the approaching minute is not yours! Only that individual soul which has this understanding engraved in its heart can merge in Siva.

We can see it that way, during the time when Baba left the body it was Yama who had the body in his grip, but in the insights he was constantly present. I waked through the ashram and felt that he was present. He was totally and fully present in the dreams and I felt depressed that I couldn't see him and I was wondering if I wanted to get up and to go and he was in my dream and said, if you don't go you will miss it. That I couldn't do.

There was a light blue image and in it a dark person and it was the question who it was. And he said years before that it was okay to go ahead when it was light blue in color and after I had to select what was light blue. There were different situation light blue, but with you when I wrote you it was really light blue and I knew I had to go in that direction to get the answer and I had to follow the inner master. There was no question about not going or once I felt too sad and I thought I wanted to get out of it and I was thinking about sightseeing and there was that 'energy' in the air, only energy and I knew I had to stay.

Even if his body was unconscious and in the hospital, he was in the inner view totally present and talked to me on a level of personal interview I never had before, he shared my thoughts, my feeling and he felt like constantly present. And that made it even sadder at the outside, because I constantly remembered that beautiful time we had with him before.

He said that it had changed and I had been abroad, so I didn't know how it had changed.

The individual soul, burdened with this easily destructible body, must pay attention to this fact and be all-eager to merge in Siva! People usually procrastinate tasks - yesterday's tasks are delayed to today and today's tasks to tomorrow. But the tasks of spiritual discipline are not of such a nature. The minute that just elapsed is beyond your grasp; so too, the approaching minute is not yours! Only that individual soul which has this understanding engraved in its heart can merge in Siva.

As he was constantly inside present, I was kind of not ready to talk to people in the ashram, I stayed for myself listening to that inside contact or the man in the dream who was like constantly present to awake us and I was in that beautiful ashram where everything reminded me at that beautiful time we had with him and all the facilities Baba gave us and what I noticed in the ashram that this was possible because it was always about 'we' and not only 'I'. That was the reason he said if I don't go I will miss it. As soon as I was after that back in the airplane, I sat down and thought about him, he said, 'not on that level'.

That is how I understood that now I was alone again and not part of the ashram and therefore, the inside contact to Baba was also not that easy anymore. It has to be shared, it is alive in 'we' and not in the 'I or you' and that is so difficult for people to understand they all want to hold on to their individuality and that is probably nothing else but the ego.

People usually procrastinate tasks - yesterday's tasks are delayed to today and today's tasks to tomorrow. But the tasks of spiritual discipline are not of such a nature. The minute that just elapsed is beyond your grasp; so too, the approaching minute is not yours! Only that individual soul which has this understanding engraved in its heart can merge in Siva

That meeting with Baba when he left the body could not be postponed. It was in the now and we had to be present in the now. The mind tried to avoid it, because it was that sad, but after all I remind there and every time the mind found another excuse of find a way out, there was something holding back.

But the tasks of spiritual discipline are not of such a nature. The minute that just elapsed is beyond your grasp; so too, the approaching minute is not yours! Only that individual soul which has this understanding engraved in its heart can merge in Siva

We cannot delay it, we meditate today or not at all, we know that.

Tomorrow is another day and tomorrow we have to mediate again to purify the mind, we cannot delay it. Time is not ours and we have to do make the best out of it and that is a motivation I always liked meditation and that it said we keep up with progress as time is progressing towards more and more … bliss of course, but it said happiness, it is easier to understand and that made people go on in meditation hoping to get there sometime in the future.  

I just loved meditation. I was surprised when the insights began and they reflected something I couldn't understand on the mind level and that was the question, how to get the right wisdom to understand it right and not wrong. And once there had been that feeling of 'soulmate' and it felt like the right direction and that is why, the soul is beyond the body. 

The minute that just elapsed is beyond your grasp; so too, the approaching minute is not yours! Only that individual soul which has this understanding engraved in its heart can merge in Siva

Yama is also waiting and he is taking care of the body and as Baba showed it in the inner view, 'we went down the well and there was hardly any water left and we went up again and he dropped the body and it fell into dust and that is Yama's part, the God of death and we have to take care that our soul will not be affected by the body and we should make sure that this understanding is engraved in our heart so that our soul will merge with Siva and not be lost with Yama, being the body only.

With Baba it was no problem, the soul dropped the body and the soul went on upwards and there was Krishna and Arjuna.

That is reflecting this message and the Bhagavad-Gita and the scriptures.

There is a difference in the light, if the soul merges with Siva there is light only and if the soul gets lost and there is only body and Yama, the God of death, it will be dark, as dark as it was in the dream of my father, it was that dark and too steep to get out of the river bed when the water came. The water was Yama, the God of death and the light was far away like a small star. How do I know? He was in my dream after his death and said that he has to show me something and after thinking it over for some time, we have heard that if we live in the future, future is mind and past is mind as well, only the present is Atma and the soulmate is in that sense someone who is also merging with the soul and not lost in the body. In the moment of death that is crucial. And if we live in the mind and for the future, the moment of death or when Yama comes to catch the body, we are only in the present and not one minute will be left for the future and that is what will happen, he was in the mind, he had no spiritual background.

The light in the mind is projected in the future and with it also Baba, he is only light and he will be far away like a small star, like the insight was showing it in my father.

He was in my dream after he died and he said, 'I have to show you something' and it was a picture, there was a bridge, but he was in the river bed and not on the bridge and he couldn't get out of it, it was sad and very dark and the light was as far away as a small little star at the sky and it was night.

Of course, if we want that, we can go also go on in the mind, if we don't do anything about it we all are in the mind and we will die also that way and Baba will not be present, there will not be Siva and not the soul merging with Siva, there will be dark night and an unreachable small light …, that is the reality of death as my father showed me as it had been for him. 

It was the man in my dream and it was about truth and that is how he makes us aware of it to awake us. It has to do with truth, father is truth and that is how we learn and see the difference from body consciousness and a life in the mind and illusion and if we are focused on the soul and the light. It is about that difference in the inner view. The inner view has to be understood right.