Do we belong to the relative or to the absolute? If we would belong to the relative and it is natural to die then why we do not want this? It is natural that we need food so nobody is upset by the fact that he needs to take food. It is natural that we have to go to the bathroom, it is not such a pleasant thing but still we all submit to the process. But when it comes to death we are really upset about it and we do so many things in this world to try to avoid it. Death is a relative thing and we belong to the absolute, so we are in absolute opposition towards the relative impact of death. And even the announcements of death called old age and disease are very much against what we aspire to meet. But because we are in this relative existence with a body subjected to the rules and regulations of this relative world there is nothing we can do about it, we simply have to accept. So we are in confrontation between the absolute and the relative. Nobody can say that: "this is not my struggle, this is not my topic." Hiranyakasipu wanted to conquer the relative, he said: "I will do something about it. I will become a yogi and I will get so much power that death will not be able to touch me." So he became a great yogi and he was very determined in what he was doing. He went into yoga meditation and started to make extreme tapasya (austerities) in order to conquer death.

[ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500 ]

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