Dear friend,
When we know we are dying, something profoundly shifts within us. Our priorities change. The things that were once important to us are no longer important, and we begin to focus on what matters to us most.
For the yogis featured in Transitioning in Grace: A Yogi’s Approach to Death and Dying by Nalini Graeber, who have dedicated years of their lives to Self-realization, there seems to be only one thing they desired in the last days of their lives. This One Thing, they urged us, should be our highest priority right now, whether we are dying or not.
The following is an excerpt from our latest release: Transitioning in Grace: A Yogi’s Approach to Death and Dying by Nalini Graeber.
While helping to lead a Kriya retreat at Ananda’s Dallas center, Maria realized that the cancer had returned and spread. When she told Devarshi that she suspected the presence of a brain tumor, she said to him, with deep feeling, “Don’t worry. I am free.”
Devarshi shared, “That weekend she was a different person. It was as if she had transcended her personality, and was utterly free in her expression. In spite of being up half the night with headaches and dizziness, her Sunday service was one of her most divinely inspired talks. Intuitively, she knew that she had a very short time to live.
“Referring to her favorite passage from the Bhagavad Gita (‘Arjuna, get away from my ocean of suffering and misery!’), she sweetly and lovingly counseled people to leave behind worldly lures and to seek God.”
There are many profound lessons one can learn from the stories of how longtime yogis have left their bodies.
Those beautiful, deeply inspiring, and important lessons are contained in this book.
Whether you are helping a loved one who is leaving this world, or someone who will soon make this transition, or a truth seeker who wants to gain deep spiritual wisdom from this sacred experience, this book is for you.
It has the potential to profoundly change your life and how you live.
“This is a glorious, stay-up-late, can’t-stop-thinking-about-it kind of book. When I got the manuscript, I read it every free minute I had, then went back to read again some of my favorite parts.
“In the last few decades, much progress has been made in ‘end-of-life care.’ Still, individually, and as a society, we have much yet to learn. This book is a quantum leap forward into that deeper understanding.
“It can—and I pray that it will—completely change the way you think about death—your own, and that of those close to you. When the inevitable day comes, this book will help you and your loved ones make a transition with grace, as each person described here has done.”
~Nayaswami Asha, author of Swami Kriyananda: Lightbearer, Swami Kriyananda as We Have Known Him, and Loved and Protected
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