Continuity of consciousness and the time of death

When you build your consciousness, at the time of dying you will consciously slip away from your body as a snake comes out of its skin. The snake does not die. That is why the snake sometimes is the symbol of continuity of consciousness and also of initiation. Why? When he sheds his skin he comes out as the same snake. He is a good snake. There are also bad snakes.

Now how important is it that before you die you get busy and build your continuity of consciousness? You must build it, or else you will die, as Solomon says, "like animals." There is no difference between the death of an animal and an unconscious man; he disappears, finished. From now on you are going to start building continuity of consciousness, starting with meditation, right thinking, right speech, harmlessness, a beautiful life based on righteousness and love, forgiveness and gratitude. All these things are building stones or lines for your continuity of consciousness.


-Torkom Saraydarian
Passage to Higher Worlds