Muerte

Muerte, en el punto de vista Teosófico, es el proceso por el cual los tres principios inferiores (el cuerpo físico, linga sharira, y prana) quedan atrás antes de que la conciencia entre en los [Vida después de la Muerte|procesos post-mortem]]. En las palabras del Mahatma K. H.:

Cuando el hombre muere, sus principios segundo y tercero mueren con el; la triada inferior desaparece, y los principios cuarto, quinto, sexto y séptimo forman el Cuaternario sobreviviente.

Theosophical attitude

In the Theosophical literature death is seen as a natural process, being part of the cycle of reincarnation. The life after death is regarded as more real than that of physical life, especially in the case of spiritual people. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

Happy those of its warriors by whom Death is regarded as a tender and merciful mother. She rocks her sick children into sweet sleep on her cold, soft bosom but to awake them a moment after, healed of all ailing, happy, and with a tenfold reward for every bitter sigh or tear. Post-mortem oblivion of every evil—to the smallest—is the most blissful characteristic of the “paradise” we believe in. Yes: oblivion of pain and sorrow and the vivid recollection only, nay once more the living over of every happy moment of our terrestrial drama; and, if no such moment ever occurred in one’s sad life, then, the glorious realization of every legitimate, well-earned, yet unsatisfied desire we ever had, as true as life itself and intensified seventy-seven times sevenfold.

Near-death review

When death is approaching, a change in consciousness begins to happen in many instances. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

While physical memory in a healthy living man is often obscured, one fact crowding out another weaker one, at the moment of the great change that man calls death - that which we call "memory" seems to return to us in all its vigour and freshness.

Through our "soul" it is then that we see, clearer and still clearer, as we approach the end; and it is through the throbs of dissolution that horizons of vaster, profounder knowledge are drawn on, bursting upon our mental vision, and becoming with every hour plainer to our inner eye. Otherwise, how account for those bright flashes of memory, for the prophetic insight that comes as often to the enfeebled grandsire, as to the youth who is passing away? The Nearer some approach death, the brighter becomes their long lost memory and the more correct the pre-visions. The unfoldment of the inner faculties increases as life-blood become more stagnant.

Before the connection between the linga sharira and the physical body is severed there is a full review of the life just lived, where consciousness watches the whole of his past life in a completely objective way: