NDE
Sashibhushan
Rath
An abbreviation for
Near death experience
It is confessional
And Transformational.
Lo!
It goes out so spontaneously
From me to elsewhere.
From one virtual space to another.
It was within me all along,
Naming it life or death
Is a matter of nomenclature.
It is a naturally smooth going
It leaves no trace.
My whole being becomes
An irreducible point
And moves into a space
Surprisingly familiar.
No regrets, no repentance
It keeps on moving
Away, far away
Never pausing in the vicinity.
It does not move aimlessly
There is an overt direction:
The right direction.
The guide is intrinsic
Within the point that I am!
No doubt exists there!
It is entering into death
Consciously through the interface (Nirvana)
And consciousness is continuity.
It is a pilgrim’s passage
From the gravity, from the body
Receding to elsewhere.
All the flames and activities
Are extinguished
Activities within cease
Life is wiped out of the body.
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Pianist Arthur Rubinstein had the habit of keeping his eyes fixed upon one person in the concert hall. This inconvenient habit did not produce any tangible consequence until he gave a performance at Palermo in Italy. This time, as mischance would have it, he fixed his attention, of course, unintentionally on a lady who was sitting in the first row. After the concert, she went to him and said “I am deeply touched, maestro. During the whole concert I had the feeling that you were playing especially for me. The evening belonged to you and me alone.”