Preparation for Death

Is there a difference between the death of a yogi and the death of a non-yogi?

Is it true that famous yogis in India die in mahasamadhi?

What is mahasamadhi?

Is it your view that you will become one with the Absolute at the time of death?

What about those who do not believe in oneness, and who think that heaven, paradise, or a kingdom of God, is the ultimate place?

Will a believer suddenly and abruptly be transferred to that place at death?

A simpler approach to this topic is to consider if there is a different between sleep and death. However with this body, sleep is something we endure night after night, while death will be endured only once. We are much more familiar with sleep than with death. This is due to the fact that even if there were past lives and will be future ones, in each life there are as many sleeps as there are quantity of days for that life. In the human species for instance there will be one death after say about seventy years but during that time there will be 70 X 365 sleeps which is 25, 550 or over twenty-five thousand sleeps.

What exactly is sleep? How is it induced? How does it come to an end? What or who controls its onset and its release?

Is sleep a preparation for death?

Since death occurs once to a body, how can the person get the best of it?

Is belief in the desired objective sufficient to format the process of death?

For sleep, we usually go into stupor and emerge from it with some stupor. Is it the same for death, where, as the body dies, one will go into astral stupor and again after some time, one will awaken with no memory of the past and with an idea that one is someone’s newborn?