Meditation is essential to remove fear of death
Meditation is essential to remove fear of death
A medical science that cannot free man from the fear of
death can never cure the disease that is man. Of course, medical science tries
hard; it tries to do this by increasing the lifespan. But increasing the
lifespan only increases the waiting period for death and nothing else – and it
is better to wait for a shorter period than a longer one. By increasing the
lifespan, you make death frightening for longer.
Did you know there is a movement going on in the countries
where medical science has increased people’s lifespan? The movement is for
euthanasia. Old people are demanding that Constitutions give them the right to
die. They say life has become arduous for them, and they are just kept hanging
on in the hospitals. It has become possible; a man can be given oxygen and kept
hanging on endlessly. He can be kept alive, but that life is worse than death.
Nobody knows how many people in Europe and America are lying in hospitals
hooked up to oxygen. They do not have the right to die, and they are demanding
to be given the right to die.
By increasing the age a person lives to, you cannot remove
the fear of death from him. By making a person healthy, you can make his life
happier but not fearless. Fearlessness comes in only one situation: When one
comes to know there is something inside that never dies. That understanding is
essential.
Meditation is the realisation of that immortality. That
which is my interiority never dies, and that which is my outside always dies.
That is why you should treat the outer, the body, medically so that as long as
it lives, it lives happily – and revive the memory of that which is within you,
so that even if death is at your doorstep, you are not afraid. Meditation from
within and medication from without can make medical science a complete science.
Meditation and medicine are two poles of one science – but
their connecting links are still missing. Slowly they are coming closer to each
other. Today, in most of the major hospitals of America, a hypnotherapist is
essential. Hypnosis is not meditation, but it is a good step. At least it shows
there is an understanding that something needs to be done about the
consciousness of man, and that just treating the body is not enough.
As I see it, if hypnotherapists come into the hospitals
today, meditation will come tomorrow. It will come later; it will take a little
time. After hypnotherapy, every hospital will have a department of meditation.
That should happen, and then we will be able to treat man as a whole. The body
will be taken care of by the doctors, the mind by the psychologists and
psychiatrists, and the soul by meditation.
The day hospitals accept man as a whole, as a totality and
treat him as such, will be a day of great benediction in the life of humanity.
I am asking you to think in this direction so that this day may come soon.
Abridged from Into the Void, Osho Times International.
Courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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