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• Mrtyu, death, on the other hand, is a negative state. Because of lack of psycho-physical parallelism, the sense organs, the nerve-cells, nerve-fibres, etc., will stop functioning, as a result of which the entire body will be as inert as a block of wood, that is, hardly distinguishable from matter. All the expressions of mental faculties become suspended. It is a state of complete lifelessness devoid of any prajiṋá.
  
  Samádhi is not possible merely through one’s own efforts. It is absolutely dependent on the grace of Paramátmá. Death is a providential arrangement. Man must make efforts to attain samádhi. So far as death is concerned, it will come as a matter of course. Through this arrangement of death, Parama Puruśa is continuing the flow of creation; otherwise this creation would have stopped. It is natural that when people lose their dear and near ones, they feel the pangs of bereavement. When operated upon, patients certainly feel pain, but all these things are unavoidable. One who is born must die. Anything, once created, must undergo change and, ultimately, meet destruction.
  (Discourse: Samádhi and Mrtyu)