Immortality

An extract from Zarathushtra: The Transcendental Vision by Phiroz Mehta

Continued from part 1, part 2 and part 3

Actual Immortality transcends both time and timelessness. It is identical with Eternity. Therefore, whilst you can consciously “touch” the deathless state and enter the infinity of all manifestation, no “you” as a particular individual entity can be immortal, be eternal. We can, nevertheless, simply, humbly and quietly affirm the Immortal, the Eternal, if we do experience the deathless state.

Transcendence, the Infinite-Eternal, the Immortal, is totally embodied in the whole cosmos. It is as if it were materialized as every thing and every creature. It exists as countless “beings”. When fulfilled, there is the dissolution of being-ness, and countless beings are ultimately the one and only non-being. Transcendence is the absolute all. God is verily God, inscrutable. The smile on the face of the inscrutable remains the Mystery. Do not probe. ‘Tis immodest to do so. Veil your face and look down. The Infinite-Eternal will lift that veil and see you. You will never see or know. You could, however, fly straight into the heart of Mystery. This is love.

Whilst absorbed in timelessness during the deathless state, Immortality is that fusion in consciousness with the Infinite-Eternal in which there is the total disappearance of isolative separate self consciousness. There is no constant immortality for any entity­being. All raindrops are divested of their separate identity when they fall into the river, as do all rivers when they meet the ocean. Every entity-being is finite and mortal, and totally ceases to be an identifiable entity after death. Whilst living, that organism was Transcendence embodied. At death, that Transcendence is just Transcendence, the One Absolute Reality. The consciousness of any being is isolative and discriminative, inevitably producing separation, fragmentation and disunity — the unwholeness which is unholiness. When and whilst the deathless state prevails through your asha, vohu manah and armaiti ,the Pure Consciousness of Unitary Wholeness in you is awake, one with the Absolute Consciousness of Transcendence, which is Immortality.

Such is the nature of Zarathushtra’s teaching. The fruition of life for the human being is the actualizing in consciousness of the Absolute Silence, the ultimate no-thing (not nothing, but no-thing which is God). Such is the glorification of the sinless full­fledged human. It is also the liberation of Transcendence out of Its self-imposed imprisonment in the finitude and temporality of Its fleshly existence. Man is the child of God. God loves the child. Let man realize love for God. Thus he becomes indispensable to God and well remembers that God is not an absolute Other beyond an unbridgeable chasm, for he himself, man, is God voluntarily self­restricted.

Recall now Zarathushtra’s teaching regarding the Silence:

Then did I realize Thee as the most Bountiful One, O Mazda Ahura, when the Good Mind encircled me completely. He declared to me that silent meditation is the best for attaining spiritual enlightenment.

Ys. 43.15

Continued in part 5

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