Dear friends in Vedanta
It is from Stillness and Peace that you are being informed of the death of Rory Mackay, the author of the English translation of his book which we use for the study of the Bhagavad Gita “The Divine Song”.
Rory was assiduous in his pursuit of Self-knowledge and Self-abidance. His time on Earth has left us an example to follow and he has left us material, both electronic and on paper, to encourage us in our pursuit of Self-knowledge. For that, we are grateful.
The physical death of any Jnani is celebrated because he/she has fulfilled the purpose of human life. There will be no more rebirths. The mind-body mechanism is a loan given by Ishvara and will be recalled at the appropriate time and manner as determined by Prarabdha karma.
The death of a Jnani instructs us on how valuable our human mind-body instrument is. It also instructs us on how it is to be used … wisely and fruitfully in terms of liberation from Self-ignorance and recognition of our true nature of Consciousness, Brahman, Atma, I.
The death of a Jnani means that the Physical body returns to the Physical realm, the Subtle body returns to the Subtle realm and the Causal body returns to the Causal realm. Nothing is left of the human form.
What remains is Brahman, pure, unconditioned, eternal. There is no more Rory Mackay. There was only Brahman, there is only Brahman, there will be only Brahman.
That Brahman, we are, here and now.
Om. Peace. Peace. Peace
