2/3 - Understanding Death | Departed Do Not Vanish, Remain With Us Like the Living

In this 2nd video of our "Understanding Death Series", we visit the next set of 5 truths about death as explained by the Rishis of Advaita Vedanta. In particular, we discover:
- The subtle causes of death, which lie hidden under the cloak of outer events such as illnesses and accidents that bring about the death of the physical body.
- The realm where the departed reside after death.
- The real reason why funeral ceremonies such as “Shradh” are performed in Hinduism.
These Vedantic truths about death have been outlined by 5 God-realized sages: Sri Aurobindo, Swami Sivananda, Swami Abhedananda, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna.
BOOKS REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO
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1. Life Beyond Death, Swami Abhedananda (FREE Download)
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2. Letters on Yoga - I by Sri Aurobindo (FREE Download)
www.sriaurobindoashram.org/ash...
3. The Master As I Saw Him by Sister Nivedita (FREE Download)
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4. Wanderings With Swami Vivekananda by Sister Nivedita (FREE Download)
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5. What Becomes of the Soul After Death by Swami Sivananda (FREE Download)
www.dlshq.org/download/afterde...
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[@albertmiller3082]

These teachings are authentic, true & real. Thank you!

[@user99tube]

Thanks for research and providing such detailed analysis. It was great to go through the step by step presentation

[@bajajones5093]

thank you Sister. you are most kind and your good works are greatly appreciated and taken as the truth that they are. Namaste.

[@vikramc08]

Such wonderful explanation of the eternal truth of the Atman! Thank you mam, for the explanation.

[@YATIN0]

Thank you so much for this amazing video. I loved it. Thanks for all the research and for making this video for us.

[@pankajkumar-pd5vc]

Great Video. Great Content. Thank you Pulkit Didi.

[@ccp74]

Excellent content,Thank you so much for sharing !

[@arjunamarc]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@onlaughing]

Thanks for uploads, its amazing

[@sucharitabhattacharjee926]

Thank you ma’am for this wonderful video it really helped me alot

[@diwakarsharma7842]

Thanks for this scientific explanation ... I appreciate it ... Thanks and God bless you

[@shyammenon1425]

Very nice video and informative.

[@Justin-hb9wc]

I like how the word vedanta sounds

[@vijaykari1809]

Hello Madam, First of all, from bottom of heart, appreciate your enormous efforts in making these esoteric topics sound like 5th or 6th class science or social subjects. As per Anurag Trivedi/ Jyoti Vyas's below comments, i want to tell them that it's not your language but the depth of the subject that makes them think so. I suggest them or many other similar opinion viewers, to pause the video/ go few seconds back if necessary & contemplate those truths with their available intelligence and move forward. These videos are not something like a novel reading or surface skimming kind of listening. They need mental attention, pauses for contemplation, extra focus from not getting deviated during contemplation etc etc. This particular video needed more of it as i personally took more time compared to your other few videos. At times we are helpless, every video can't be too simply presented like Chetan Bhagat's narration. Even he misses it at times. I have come across many spiritual videos/ blogs & i haven't seen anyone presenting these esoteric concepts as simple as you. Majority of your viewers can not understand enormous struggle it takes to present the content so systematically organized & simple as you are doing. I suggest you not to make it anymore simpler as it has a risk of giving boredom if you dwell too much on a simple single point rather than moving forward. Thanks & Best Regards. Wish you good health, spiritual progress with God's Grace. Edit: Just now saw Anurag's acceptance in the last comment of his thread. But i am not editing my original message as it's not intended just for him, but for other viewers too. But if the input is for only tough english vocabulary here & there, that's a welcome suggestion.

[@ideep1101]

Awesome work... I loved all your videos... Keep it up mam

[@b.a.6362]

Thank you for such clear simple teachings & repeating the information! Is there a written version one can obtain of these videos please>?

[@zibamanish3651]

Very good explanation of death

[@shoukatali705]

Thank you so much madam۔ May Allah reward you for this۔

[@Shreymani2]

Nice video.. so informative!

[@pragmaticcat7619]

Love you!

[@shilpaihiremath]

Excellent explanation. 👌

[@canovwrms2684]

Thank you

[@roy-nk4vq]

Love your videos

[@dr.sanildubey1860]

Thankyou didi

[@karthikraju6575]

Thank you Mam very informative

[@b.a.6362]

How about the people who have lost their memory & never really developed clarity of thought? Are they clear mind & have good memory after death?

[@umeshp4834]

Thanks for wonderful video on such a difficult topic. Eagerly waiting for third series. Also if you can clarify about nature of rebirth i.e a human will be born as human or any animal in next birth

[@amwaybrandambassador722]

Very good..short cut to dark world....blind. searching black cat in dark room

[@srirambm]

very nice

[@abhishekshukla7864]

I suggest reading NDE or near death experience accounts to get a clear picture on what happens after death.

[@dmunshi4361]

I am not getting the part 3 of this sequel in you tube. Pls help me to complete the learning.

[@jyotivyas9286]

She is very much hard core linguistic american or british. Mam!! I must tell you... Your mind is complete mind!! You should Meditate over Your 💓 Heart madam pulkit!! Please Go and De- Automatize yourself!! A Sharing From A Osho Sanyasin...!! Love & Renenbering My Great Master Oshohooo!! ✌️✌️✌️👍👍👍🤸🤸🤸💃💃💃😇😇😇😀😀😀😍😍😍😘😘😘

[@harikrishnak7875]

Hi, I have a question about this subject death. If a soul learnt lessons from past life and starts a new life by carrying of all past life memories and you mentioned these memories are take actions as samskhar of new life form ?? So by born some people are gifted on interests such as (music, singing, sports, meditation, acting, fashion, science, IQ skills etc.. ) as a natural talent from their childhood without any influence by others. So these interests are formed based on previous birth lessons or Karma's ??

[@priroy16]

Didi, waiting for the Part 3 of the video.

[@shambusharath9757]

What is the reason for the increasing population? is soul duplicating

[@ManishKumar-js1tp]

It's too deep concept if possible plz make in hindi mam,......

[@harikrishnak7875]

Hi my another question is after death soul takes another form based on previous life deeds right ? If it is, the deeds are taking a form by thoughts or by actions as a part of mind decisions.. so at that moment does a soul really involves with mind ? Or a mind only take lead to do deeds ? The act of goodness, follow dharma, kindness, love, truth all these good thoughts are coming from brain or soul ?

[@devajyoti2753]

I wanted to know that too. Hari Krishnna K

[@vijaykrawat]

For how much time do the spirits of the departed stay on this gross plane?

[@dinkalsheth8823]

Thank u mam.. I have a question that when soul learns the lessons in this life and after taking new birth it forgets everything. So how the soul will progress in its journey?

[@Spiritualbee]

Dinkle Sheth memory of past remains stored in subconscious mind. All lessons learnt are stored there as samskaras. And this mind with all the stored info journeys with us to new birth

[@ManojavaKrishnaiah]

Your question is great...👌👍

[@ManojavaKrishnaiah]

@@Spiritualbee So, if a person has not made his subconscious into conscious... It means that, his present life is just a waste no... That means he has not accessed the lessons from his past lives into his present consciousness...??

[@dinkalsheth8823]

@@ManojavaKrishnaiah Past lives has samkaras on our soul. Present life we live is the fructified karmas of our past lives. Our karmas which we perform presently highly depends upon our free will as to how we respond to our current situation. This same response will design our consciousness for taking future births. So the more positively you use ur free will, the more positive births u will get. The lessons which you have learnt in this life, its continuous application will set your progress. So in the next birth, as per your consciousness of past lives, u will take birth and continue your journey from where it had stopped. I hope i have answered u what u wanted to know..

[@ManojavaKrishnaiah]

@@dinkalsheth8823 Thank you sooo much for your reply mam... But what I wanted to know is, our past karmas need to come to our awareness no... Otherwise we remain totally unconscious of our instinctive tendencies which are the products of our past lives karmas... So, becoming conscious is must and should in other to move on a spiritual path towards the realization of experience of ultimate universal consciousness....!😊👍

[@heavenoo4999]

Please make this vedio in HINDI.. as well so it’s much easier for those who can’t understand in English ... it’s my humble request 🙏🙏

[@user-hw1we2sl9p]

Add "ALSO" before "in Hindi" (if we don't respect all people in India, how can we improve spiritually?) मुझे आशा है की आप समझ गए होंगे l "आम लोगों" में "अन्य सभी लोग" शामिल हैं। सही या गलत?

[@Spiritualbee]

heaven oo4 yes that work is pending. The writings of all these gurus are in English and so its easier for me to quote from there directly. Translation takes time. But I am in the process of converting Spiritual Bee into an NGO and then hopefully I can lauch a Hindi channel when I have more resources to help me out.

[@heavenoo4999]

The Spiritual Bee Thank you for your reply ..🙏🙏May God bless you with more strength so can help humility and spread his message 🙏

[@ManojavaKrishnaiah]

Very great work madam... I appreciate you... But I would like to suggest you, something out of my observation... The sub titles are being imposed on the main slides of your video and the texts in the video are being hidden... Since, the text being used by you in the templates is English only... You can simply avoid putting subtitles... And we can correlate your voice to the text on the slides of the video.. Kindly consider... If you feel so...😊👍🙏

[@tanushreej9213]

hello Pulkit didi, I have a request, could you please make a video on gaurdian angels, i mean are they real? and if yes then why are they here with us?

[@Spiritualbee]

Tee Jay hello, the best guardian angel is God himself. So we should try to form an inner relation with him. The guardian angels described in this video are simply our dead relatives and friends who sometimes like to help us from beyond. They can help, but far better is the help of God as our past present and future are completely known to Him. There is yet another class of guardian angels that belong to the realm higher than our dead relatives but lower than god. Its a realm between these 2. They also help, but even these angels are not as good as God. So God is the only one we should fix our mind upon and we should develop a close and steady inner relationship with Him so that whenever we find ourselves in trouble we call for the Highest and the Best and the most Perfect help.

[@tanushreej9213]

The Spiritual Bee thank you so much for the reply Didi. Can i ask you one more question like you said God is more powerful than gaurdian angels then how to take help from god, how to make connection with god, whenever we feel confused in life and we have no answer then how to seek god's help. Please reply.

[@Spiritualbee]

Tee Jay Hi! Establishing connection with God is not difficult. There are a few things one needs to do: 1. Read spiritual books - like those of the Rishis whose photos are on the cover of this video. Reading books of those who have walked the path clears our concepts. Secondly when we read such books we develop bhakti or devotion. Also we develop introspection which is key to establishing contact with God. Through introspection we cleanse our mind of its bad habits and tendencies and try to become better human beings. So this sadhana or work of cleansing the mind gets initiated by reading spiritual books. Good books really highlight where our shortcomings are and how to correct them. Once this sadhana of self reformation starts a person develops sincerity which helps in the second thing to do which is to: 2. Pray - We must establish the habit of praying everyday. Praying means talking to God in our mind, just as we would talk to a friend. We must be utterly frank with him about our own shortcomings and faults. We should go through all the mistakes we made in the day and before the Divinity of God and then try to rectify them. Sincerity is the key. If we are in difficulty we should tell God, to help us by showing us the way. But we must not make any demands. We must not say: I want this, I want that...instead pray "God this is my problem, please show me the way out WHICH YOU THINK IS BEST for my spiritual development." This is a difficult prayer but the best one. Then once we have prayed, we must continue to work hard at resolving our problem, and one will slowly see that through it all God in strange ways is carrying us through and providing his help. Note that it is very important that we continue to work at resolving our problem. We must try our best efforts and leave the results to God. In this attitude of sincerity one slowly begins to feel the helping hand of God guiding us.

[@tanushreej9213]

The Spiritual Bee thank you so much Didi for explaining it to me🙏 I will surely practice these things sincerely.

[@rajukumarjha8933]

Someone is lucky and someone not.is it true or there is no luck

[@gauravpawar6074]

can u pls make this in Hindi. thank you. God bless you.

[@user-hw1we2sl9p]

Add "ALSO" before "in Hindi" (if we don't respect all people in India, how can we improve spiritually?) मुझे आशा है की आप समझ गए होंगे l "आम लोगों" में "अन्य सभी लोग" शामिल हैं। सही या गलत?

[@vishnuprasad9003]

If spirits of our loved ones are guarding us, then how is it possible that they take birth again to continue evolution of the soul? Please correct me if im wrong

[@bedefinc5028]

Vishnu Prasad each soul has a certain amount of time that it takes to reincarnat so every situation is different. They can talk to you as long as the reincarnation process hasn't begun

[@bedefinc5028]

If you have a violent death opposed to a subtle one it would take a much longer time to reincarnate.

[@Spiritualbee]

Vishnu Prasad some spirits who want to help their near and dear ones become guardian angels. Not all spirits. Even the guardian angels when they feel they have done their duty and its their time to reincarnate depart to a new life.

[@user-hw1we2sl9p]

आप शानदार हैं। जब मैं "आप" कहता हूं, मेरा मतलब "आप का आत्मा" l

[@anuragtrivedi8635]

நம்ம பாலாஜி नम्म बालाजी बहुत अच्छा लगा आपको हिंदी लिखा देख। कहाँ से सीखी आपने? நம்ம பாலாஜி. கோவிந்தா 🙏🙏🙏

[@user-hw1we2sl9p]

इस दुनिया में सभी भाषाएँ केवल हमारी भाषाएं हैं। लेकिन, हम सभी भाषाओं को नहीं सीख सकते हैं। यही एकमात्र समस्या है।

[@anuragtrivedi8635]

நம்ம பாலாஜி सही कहा मित्र आपने। आप जितनी भाषा सीखने की इच्छा रखते हैं उन्हें तो सिख ही सकते है। तमिल विश्व की सबसे पुरानी भाषाओं में से एक है। दुर्भाग्य इस राष्ट्र का यह है कि इतनी सारी शास्त्रीय भाषाओं के होते हुए भी, इतनी प्राचीन, सुतार्किक, मीठी एवं स्पष्ट भाषाएँ होते हुए भी हम विदेशी भाषा को अधिक महत्व देते है। मैं तो कहता हूँ हमारी राष्ट्रीय भाषा कोंकणी, डोगरी, मणिपुरी इत्यादि जैसी बहुत ही कम लोगों द्वारा बोली जाने वाली भाषा भी यदि बन जाए तो मुझे गर्व होगा बस उसने हमारे राष्ट्र की कोई भाषा होना चाहिए। लोग कहते है अंग्रेजी नहीं सीखेंगे तो विश्व से व्यापार कैसे करेंगे, मेरा मत है कि क्यों न हम हमारी भाषा को इतना उन्नत करें कि विश्व हमारी भाषा में व्यापार करने लगे। यह यह संभव है आखिर अंग्रेजी को विश्व भाषा बनाने वाले भी मानव ही तो हैं। वैसे मैं अंग्रेजी का विरोधी नहीं हूँ मैं अंग्रेजियत का विरोधी हूँ।

[@user-hw1we2sl9p]

हिंदी में आपका लेखन अच्छा नहीं......, लेकिन अद्भुत था l अपने शब्दों को पढ़ने के बाद, मैं एक और दुनिया पहुंचा।

[@dipinanda1]

When will all these end? When we realize that we are Brahman, all that Is, Is ME!!

[@sandeepkumarparal]

So swami abhedananda knew about 4D. Did he prove it?

[@theperfectcelibate8669]

How u know 4d.😅😆

[@anuragtrivedi8635]

oh didi you use very tough and hard english. please be simple in your videos. Actually you covered very deep knowledge in this video thus it should be easily accessible to comman people. But afterall it is great video. Thank you very much.

[@jyotivyas9286]

Anurag Trivedi yes. Her language is totally Americanized educated very much logical. How alas!! No poetry at all!!Women also Forgotten to Come down to 💓 Heart & its Beloved poetry.

[@anuragtrivedi8635]

Jyoti Vyas I can understand that she is very well educated but Knowledge is indicated by wisdom not by language. And you know american and british english both are the dialect of standerd english. Also I want to tell you that about which poetry you are talking, I can not understand. I didn't understand half of your comment. What heart?? what poetry??? comming down and all that????

[@Spiritualbee]

Anurag Trivedi did you find the english in this video hard or in all my videos? Let me know. In this video i am quoting these gurus directly and their English is itself hard.

[@Spiritualbee]

Anurag Trivedi Sri Aurobindo in particular wrote in tougher English. Many Indians would find it difficult.

[@anuragtrivedi8635]

The Spiritual Bee Thank you so much didi for your reply. First I want to tell you that I have seen almost all your videos and they are very knowledgable. One can easily be impressed and attracted with your videos as presentation work is also very good and impressive. For me toughness and hardness in your videos means my unability to understand certain words or the vocabulary you use. Not for every word but for some, I have to pause your videos, search meaning in dictonary and then resume them and not only in this video for all videos I faced such problem. It may also be my inadequacy of vocabulary but I thought that if i am getting such problem many more are facing it and thats why I commented. Thank you so much again. नमस्कार और प्रणाम🙏🙏🙏

[@shashankverma5765]

U mean there is no heaven or hell??

[@Spiritualbee]

Shashank Verma watch the help im scared of ghosts video. Its explained there

[@shashankverma5765]

I have watched it !

[@shashankverma5765]

But ur explation is different from what lord krishna says in bhagvad gita!

[@Spiritualbee]

Shashank Verma explain your point further