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people who need to shift in this way to see a new kind of collective consciousness on this planet. Now it is for us to play our part in this transformation. It is important for us to wake up and live translucently. And encourage other people to do so. And then we will be in tune with the Divine will.
The need to become a living dead has been stressed by all realized beings and the scriptures. Why is it so important? As they remind us, if one is not free from the time-bound consciousness while living in the body, then he will be unable to free himself from the cycle of repeated death and birth. In other words, Liberation or Mukti is not an after death phenomena. It must be achieved and demonstrated ―here‖ and ―now‖ while still alive. Becoming living dead also means closing of the bodily senses in material consciousness, and opening up of the Divine Consciousness. With the senses active we will be unable to enter the Spiritual Consciousness. In other words, the process of becoming living dead involves separating the consciousness from the material bondage. It is a total merger or union with
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