II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

मरण माझे मरोन गेले I
मज केले अमर II
ठाव पुसिले बुड पुसिले I
वोसले देहभाव II
आला होता गेला पूर I
धरिला धीर जीवनी II
तुका म्हणे अनादीचे I
झाले साचे उजवणे II

It is said that,
" To be dead while still alive is not to jump off the cliff or fall down from a roof but it is simply to know One's True Self, his very Essence while alive."
To become living dead or Self Realised Soul, One needs to be liberated from the bondage of false ego sense emerging out of "I am the body" idea."
In the worldly sense, demise of the physical body is considered as death. However it is not true and actually is the other way around. "I am the body" idea itself is the root cause of all suffering and it in itself is death because it shuts off all the Pathways to Self Realisation. In this composition Sant Tukaram Maharaj says, to transcend beyond Body Consciousness is the real death or in other words Death of Death. This is Self Realisation. He says, the real death is to die while still alive. It is death at the level of mind while still living in the body.
Sant Tukaram Maharaj says, with Death of Death, the raging flood of vices recede leaving behind the Oneness of Eternal.
Summimg up Sant Tukaram Maharaj says, in the state of Living Liberated, when the Wisdom of his True Self dawned on him, he was relieved from the vicious and endless cycle of repeated sufferings forever. "

II श्रीराम जय राम जय के राम II

II श्रीसद्गुरुचरणार्पणमस्तु II