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So you have not experienced it, you have not seen it, nor have you had
a first-hand information from anybody. So from where did you get this
idea that there is something called as death? Death is a fiction created by
ignorant people. Death is the creation of people who live their lives in
total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one
dimension to another, another dimension to another.

See, what you call as life right now, the process of life; you can also refer
to it as death. You can say “I am living right now” or you can say “I am
dying right now.” Actually, from the day you are born you are slowly
dying. One day the process will be complete. Right now it is on the way.
You may be thinking you are going to many places, but as far as your body
is concerned, without a moment’s distraction, it is going straight to the
grave, nowhere else. Isn’t it so?

So, is death okay or not okay? Even these kinds of questions which are
coming up are silly, because whether you say it is okay or not okay, anyway
you will die. Every moment you are playing between life and death and life
and death – actually it is so. This inhalation, exhalation... You inhaled, life
happened. You exhaled and did not inhale again, death happened, isn’t it?
See, every moment in Yoga we say inhalation is life, exhalation is death.
You exhale, and if you do not take in the next inhalation it dislodges you
from the body. So fragile, isn’t it so? Something so fragile is the basis of
your existence here. Death is walking with you every step. It is so close all
the time.

There is nothing wrong with death; it has to happen. Only because there
is death, there is life. You need to understand that the moment you are
born, you have a death sentence upon you. When, where, and how is the
only question, but you are on death row. Your death is confirmed, isn’t it?
We do not know whether you will get educated or not; we do not know
whether you will get married or not; we do not know whether you will
know joy or not; we do not know whether you will know misery or not;
but we know one day you will die. That one thing is guaranteed.

This whole fear of death has come simply because you have no idea what
it is. You have formed ideas about everything, just about everything. But
it does not matter what ideas you have formed about life, when you are
confronted with the moment of death, you really do not know anything.
That is one space of life which has remained uncorrupted by the human
mind. Everything else we have corrupted, isn’t it? Whatever was supposed
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