Atmānanda- Laharī

  Let me die beautifully Let me soar like an eagle, lifting into vastness, carried by divinity, by quiet ecstasy, gently dissolving into the sky, making way for those yet to rise. Let me fall like an autumn leaf, loosening from the branch with tenderness and grace a departure beyond the logic, incalculable and unpredictable. Let me enter death with full awareness: that all which is born, all that takes form, must pass through the event called death. Not yielding to fear and trembling, not shrinking in sorrow, not clinging to breath through a forest of tubes, not resisting, not postponing but meeting it with a quiet joy, surrendering the indomitable ego, receiving in return a boundless, unbroken awareness. submitting the restless noise of mind revealing an impeccable silence pure, luminous, and untouched. With the knowing that death is not distant; it lives here, now, in every inhale, every exhale, where the miracle of living unfolds. And from this knowing, a new passion to live ari...