Imagination of Liberation from Death

2 weeks ago By Yogi Anoop

Imagination of Liberation from Death: A Philosophical Dialogue

Disciple’s Question —Gurudev, a few years ago I had an encounter with a scientist in Singapore. He had a firm belief that one day human science would advance so much that doctors would conquer death—a day would come when man would completely eradicate viruses and attain immortality. I do not know whether that scientist is still alive or not, and I have not had any contact with him for years. Yet, this question continues to revolve within me—can death be erased?

Yogi Anoop’s Response —

Just some time ago, a student doctor from Greece came to me. He was saying with great conviction that if we take a fixed amount of vitamin C daily, not only can we prevent cancer, but we can also become immortal. He had experimented with this himself for twenty years. He kept explaining the same to his family; he had a framework, a philosophy—as if he had achieved total victory over the body.

But what happened was that years later, when he went for a regular health checkup, he was diagnosed with cancer. And the stage of that cancer was extremely severe. When his son was asked about it, he said that his father’s response was—“Perhaps I made a mistake; maybe I should have taken a higher dose of vitamin C.”

However, after a few months, his body came to rest (he passed away).

Look, this answer reveals a lot. It is the collapse of a fundamental philosophical belief, an opening of the doorway to a psychological world of imagination that opens within each one of us at some point. And we are often found believing that our sages and seers never died, that they still exist in physical form.

But the moment someone says, “I will not die,” in that very moment he has already lived a moment of death. Because an ordinary person, instead of acknowledging experiential reality, remains eager to accept those events as true which are neither intellectual nor practical truths.

If one experiences very subtly, the death of this body is happening every moment. It cannot be stopped. But by not accepting it as truth, one errs in trying to make the body immortal.

He loses the subtlety of life within himself. Because the greatest acceptance in life is that death is a truth—and accepting it is the true beginning of life. To imagine immortality out of fear of death is a kind of intellectual illusion—an attempt to imprison the soul within the walls of a laboratory.

The fundamental truth is that by understanding the mortal nature of this body, one must experience the experiencer—who is, by nature, the non-doer, conscious soul. That alone is unchanging.

Now your question is about the brain—specifically, the possibility of a certain energy located in its upper part that can heal down to the DNA level. Yes, this is a deep question from an intellectual perspective. There are parts of the brain that are not merely associated with memory or cognition but also with the highest waves of consciousness. In yoga, it is called the Sahasrara—where the individual becomes one with the source of the soul. From there, energy is not just active in healing the body but also in offering a vision beyond the body.

But we must understand that keeping the body alive forever is not possible—no matter what science claims. This body, which is made of form, color, and shape, must dissolve one day. Because it is a “mixture”—composed of earth, water, fire, air, and space. And the things made from a combination are bound to separate one day.

The clay will remain in its essence, but the form we imposed upon it—the pot we shaped—will break one day.

Thus, liberation from death does not come through science, but through deep experience of the soul. When we accept death without fear, only then can we truly live life in its wholeness.

To live in search of immortality is to live in the shadow of death. But the one who understands death and accepts it—that one, in truth, becomes free from death.

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