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O son of Kunti! While leaving the body, whatever a person thinks about at

the time of death, shall be certainly attained by that person, but that person

must always be constantly absorbed in the thought of it. ||8-6||

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The sutra today is one that tells a story. The subject is the same as the preceding one: Whatever is remembered during the final moment, when we leave the old rags of our body behind.

We must understand the word bhav here. When Luki came here to the satsang today he told us about how yesterday somebody told him something. The other person spoke, and Luki heard it and stored what was said. There was a feeling that the one person had, and he just had to share it with Luki, and Luki remembered it. That feeling is a bhav, and that is what will remain once the body and its identity are no more.

There is only one mind, it comes from the Prakrti. Just as there can be many forms of water - liquid, steam, ice - so there can be many forms of mind. When water enters the fish from the fish pond, it will behave differently than when it was in the pond. That is the kind of transformation this sutra discusses - the water itself is no longer separate from the fish, it is absorbed into it, no longer distinct. The water itself has not changed, but its context has changed to such a degree that it can no longer be identified as such - it comes up from the earth and is absorbed into a plant, and we no longer even see it, to know it is there requires a lot of inference. Similarly, at the last moment of life, whatever the person has in mind will be absorbed into the next phase.

The story is that there was a person who spent his entire life dreaming of eating chicken, and because he had chicken on the brain, his next life was spent in a chicken coop. It is the bhav of the ideas in our mind at the end that will move forward to the next phase - the identity is created by Prakrti. Our identities disappear and all that is left is what our minds have been occupied with. The idea that one can access the past life is incorrect, all of the past identity is gone, and the only thing that moves forward is the bhav. Our interest in identity itself is what motivates our interest in past lives.

If we understand that there is only one mind, just as all water is the same irrespective of its form, then we understand this. Once I visited a yogi in the Himalayas and he told me that I needed to put water on the boil for tea, that somebody was coming - there was no indication of anybody on the way to us, but he knew it, he was tuned into the mind that is one in a different way, he didn't need to have sensory input to know what was going to happen. When a hen sits on eggs and keeps them warm, when a mother nurses her child, they do this constantly and the chick or the child matures, but we do not do this, we do not cultivate our focus in this way, and that means we are like flying frogs, running all around with no focus. Constancy and stabilization are what we want, but we do not practice them and we are always running around. If the hen does not keep the eggs warm, the chicks will not hatch. Constantly focusing on our aim is what is required.

Arjuna was lucky because he had Krishna right there in front of him, to say to him:  Keep going, don't stray from your intention. We have a harder time of this. We can't even be without names and forms for a single second, we must always be seeing things and hearing things, we cannot keep the senses empty. Abhav is that which is not. Whatever is not - no name, no form - still exists, however. How are we supposed to access that great nothingness, which exists, with our minds that are so focused on naming things and distinguishing forms? The yogi masters say that to get there we must focus on one name and one form only, single-pointed focus of our attention and concentration. That in and of itself is a big problem for us, because we doubt everything, which inherently involves dualism - this or that? How can we bring our minds to a single point? That is the practice, though, singing mantras, tratak, achieving the same state constantly, and once that is achieved, once that is, then that is what will be transmitted into the next phase, into the nothingness of Brahma. We make altars and statues to remind us of this in the physical world. 

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