The death is predestined. You should put a huge amount of energy or strong will to change the course of events. In case of success, we say someone defeated the death.

      What happens after death?

      As we know, all life systems, including brain, fails. Biologically and legally the death of brain is the moment of death. Interesting that yogis of higher levels of practice can stop their breath and even modify the brain activity so no supersensitive technology may fix it – and go back to normal state of mind. It’s not that simple and the death of brain is very questionable. But sure not every yogi can do that so science considers the death of brain cells as the irreversible death of body and end of the physical presence.

      After that the person cleanse himself from all his bounds, personality, ego and mental affection to himself, to the form, the body, thoughts and everything surrounding him. Affection to what he called himself and his life. Reality is different for everybody. All thoughts and energies about age, appearance, life, feelings, senses, emotions – everything he was when he was John Doe. Here is an example. When you meditate, at some point you stop existing and suddenly you realize that all your life including present moment and you in it is just an illusion and there is something inside you existed always and way before your birth and you have a strong connection with the god, with the Knowing self, guiding you both in very simple and global spiritual terms. Maybe you are a god yourself.

      This erasure can happen in meditation and even during long monotonous work, long contemplation or eсstatic experience. It’s a moment when you ask yourself: Who am I? What am I? – and you know exactly that you are more than your identity card and reflection in a mirror and you are a spiritual being in cosmic space. It’s a moment when you observe yourself and don’t understand who is observer then? Where is the limit of you and the beginning of the Cosmos? It’s a moment when you realize that all social roles, all stories from childhood, youth and maturity created by you are all an outer shell but not real you. It’s just a part of you, the face but not soul. Personality – not soul.

      This personality is erased when the body dies. The soul frees from the personality. I wrote above that sometimes the spirit looks younger than he was when he died, not, say, 80 years old, but 50. Probably this happens because the soul still sees the personality as 50-years old and appears like that.

      After the erasure many things become insignificant. Going through this stage may be very painful because exactly on that stage the soul resists and hold its own beliefs, self and the longer this lasts the harder to go to the Afterlife. To accelerate and simplify the liberation all spiritual practices are for. When we read about hell in religious literature, it’s not about demons outside who eat our bodies and scare us – it’s all about inner demons and fears in hypertrophied and personified forms. Your affection to material things may lead to constant anxiety (remember how you don’t want to say goodbye to your favorite things when you have to) and at worst may lead to strong connection between your spirit and the thing so you will wander around your home unable to be free. Yes, you will be a restless soul. If you have strong feeling to food, this affection looks like an ugly demon of gluttony and will torture you all the time.