Rest in Peace

“ Enlightenment is here and now: just rend the veil and you will be It.
Do not wait for death – after death, no change happens;
You merely end up in an apartment in the city of the dead
With the ghosts of your memories
And the baggage of your unfulfilled desires.
You incarnated for one reason only: to know and express the ONE.
So clean your mirror – and BE It! ”

From Lightsongs, the book.

When someone dies, people say: may he rest in peace. 

What does this mean? Does the death of the body guarantee peace?

Or will it merely  transfer your suffering into yet another movie,

Like it has happened a thousand times before?

If you would truly know peace, you have to be tired of all the movies.

You have to die before the body dies.“

"The death of the mind drowned in the ocean of Self-consciousness is the eternal silence. The real ‘I’ is the supreme Heart-space which is the great ocean of bliss. Having annihilated the delusive mind which always dwells upon worldly things, having killed the restless ego, and having completely erased the worldly vasanas, shine as Shiva, the pure consciousness itself. Do not wander outside, eating the scorching sand of worldly pleasures, which are non-Self; come home to the Heart where peace is shining as a vast, everlasting, cool shade, and enjoy the feast of the bliss of Self.”     

 Sri Ramana Maharishi, Guru Vachaka Kovai

There is a vast amount of garbage stored in the invisible hard disk that is your ego-mind complex. If you don’t delete all these trash files while you are alive, they will just get carried forward in a subtle body and drag you through more lifetimes.

The only way to permanently delete these files is to dissolve the ego-mind in the very core of your being: the Heart.

The divine light in the Heart burns away all the fears and desires, attachments and phobias, all the junk files that make up the ego-mind. The illusion of personality is destroyed completely- your cloud storage is completely cleared.

All suffering ends in that ocean of immortal bliss.

So, before this body dies, turn all your attention inwards – dive deep into the Heart.

Surrender with great love and devotion at the feet of Grace.

Discover the glory of the Self that shines unchanging, eternal, infinite.

Rest in that sublime and perfect peace – right here, right now.