Dying With A Smile

Is it possible to smile even in the face of death? Can a person remain joyous and balanced even at the final moment? Find out what Sadhguru has to say in this audio. Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serve as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

Transcript

How a human dies, For example, A human dies with a little smile on his face, Another dies because of an accident. What does it say about his life? The other one who burnt like my father's by accident? And can we say he has lived a bad life? Of course, It was his own fault. It was his own fault that the fire happened. See, If somebody has to smile at the moment of death, Definitely that human being has lived a very relaxed life. When death comes, If he can smile, Let go. Definitely this person has little control over the whole process of life, Isn't he? Isn't it so? Now death is coming to you, This moment you are living. If this moment you can live with a smile on your face, Because most people cannot smile in their lifetime. Isn't it so? Yes? People cannot spray while they are walking outside, It's spring time, But you don't see a smile on their face. Everything in nature is smiling at them, But they are… So can these people smile at the moment of death? No chance, Isn't it? If someone has to smile at the moment of death, Definitely he has a little more control, A little more nicely over life situations, Isn't it? Somebody dying in an accident, May not say anything about the way he has lived. No. I might look at a wonderful life, But today I am driving and I am doing 100 mph. I have just one mistake, Just one mistake. It can finish my life off, Isn't it? Isn't it so? So that's got nothing to do with how I have lived my life. It's just one stupid mistake in driving process can take away life. Now when you are getting burnt in a car or in an office or wherever, Sitting quietly, Smiling and dying is very difficult because your body is still fully healthy, It doesn't die easy, Now it's burning, So burning has to kill you. But now for somebody else, Life is ebbing away for some other reason, Either simply old age, Whatever. The life energies have lost their vibrance, Now it leaves easily. There is no tailing. Between you and your body there is a certain bondage. If your life energies are right now very vibrant and there, It won't leave the body easy. Slowly as time passes, As the allotted karma dissipates, Then your life energies become dissipated. When they have lost their vibrance, It will slip out of the body so much more easily. So at that time, It is a much better opportunity for a person to die with a smile on his face. Because tearing of you and the body is very easy, It has become ripe. When it's not ripe, If you tear it in an artificial way, Forceful way, Now smiling and going is difficult, But not impossible, Still possible. Now suppose I catch my car and I am dying, Everything is broken in the body, And I think, Oh my God, After all this life, I have to crash my car like this and laugh and die in a car accident. I would. If I die like that, You will see. In a crashed car, You will still find me with a smile. Because I have tears to look at the irony of it. How much man driving I have done today, Oh my God, I have to crash my car like this. It's like, Let's say, A great race champion, Just taking a car off the parking lot, He crashed and he is dying. Maybe he will laugh, You know. Oh my God, After all the racing, Here I am, Pulling the car off the parking lot, I am getting dead. It's not good, But it needs a certain balance. But generally, When your life is vibrant, To tear it out of your body means there is violence in it, There is pain in it, There is suffering in it. So that time, Smiling becomes difficult. Smiling and not smiling is not the issue. It is just that with how much awareness you are leaving, It is not the issue. Only if you are aware, You can smile, Isn't it? If you are caught up in the situation, You cannot smile. The people of the street, Especially in Europe, They are not smiling, Not because something has gone wrong with their lives. If they are not smiling, They become so badly caught up with whatever their nonsense. When they are so caught up, Even if they are living a princely life, They cannot smile because they caught up with their life, Not because life is bad, Isn't it? Not because they have not eaten, They are not smiling. They are not smiling because they are entangled with their life. Everything may be happening properly, But they are so entangled, They cannot smile. So it is the entanglement, You are able to smile at the time of your death, Or not smile, Simply shows the level of entanglement with life. Anyway, One would die. Better now, But they will die, Isn't it? People who are initiated by being, They must smile and die. They must smile a little bit, But they must definitely smile and die. Good guys, Bye now.