Transitioning

In a post to my Alternative Media blog, I posted about saying farewell to Facebook for reasons explained in that post but another factor that I didn't mention was the process of needing to gradually let go of earthly concerns. Facebook was filled with photos, videos and stories of people who I once knew and interacted with but now they are no longer a part of my life. The few people outside my family that I still interact with are contactable by means other than Facebook.

Family and a very few friends will remain important to the end but the others are no longer relevant. My physical health has taken a battering over the past few weeks and this is a signal to focus on my psychological and physical well-being and forget the outside world. The world on the other side awaits and preparations should be made. While I've never been a team player, I feel that our successive lives are like a relay race and it's important to pass the baton cleanly to the next person so that they have the best possible start to their life.

My actions and attitudes in the time remaining to me will have important consequences for the person who takes up the baton from me. So I need to find out what's going on with my body at the moment as this is a challenge that needs to be faced and overcome. I'm not going to allow myself to remain in this debilated condition. Whether by diet, exercise or some form of meditation, I'll find a way through this.

Eternal Divine Bliss

I'd read the following quote before but never fully understood it but on reading it this time, it made more sense. The quote arrived via a regular Meher Baba newsletter.

WHEN BABA SAYS “HE HAS COME TO ME” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

(May 1958) Charles Purdom asked, “Will you comment on what you mean by ‘to come to me’?”

Baba replied:

To come to me means liberation, experiencing me as I am, no more bondage of births and deaths. But it does not mean the state of a Perfect Master or Perfection. That is only to be attained while alive in the gross body. So if you are not blessed with this state of Perfection [while in the body], at least you can have liberation [after the body drops].

If you just take my name, just at the moment of dropping your body, you will come to me. Yes, anyone. It is not easy to take my name at the very moment of leaving the body. Then you individually experience bliss, infinite bliss. After attaining liberation, you continue to experience infinite bliss eternally. Why? Because it belongs to you eternally. You experience what belonged to you eternally. Even spiritual ecstasy cannot be compared with divine bliss. Remember this.

Lord Meher, Original Publication, Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 15, pp. 5444 – 5445.

This is certainly something to aspire to, although in practice almost impossible to execute. However, I still remember a dream in which I tumbled off a cliff and was hurtling toward the ground with a house also tumbling down right above me. If the impact of the fall didn't kill me, the house crashing down on me certainly would. I knew I was finished and was only seconds from death. I fumbled to access my wallet containing Baba's photo but realised that I didn't have time and ended up taking Baba's name instead.

At least in the dream I was able to take Baba's name at the moment of dropping my body so maybe one day I'll be able to do so in real life.