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to be sacred, all these things are hugely corrupted by the human mind.
Human minds have corrupted love, relationships, God, Divinity –
everything they have corrupted and twisted out whichever way they want.
Death is one thing that they are still clueless about–though a lot of people
would like to talk authoritatively about it. They know they are going to go
to heaven; they are dead sure about it. If they are so sure, I don’t see what
they are waiting for.

They are doing everything not to go to heaven. Why? If you are so sure
you are going to a wonderful place, a better place than this, and then you
must hurry up. But because you are not sure, you talk. You are not 100%
sure where you will go, what will happen to you. Just to solace yourself,
just to be able to psychologically handle life, you create all these things.
But essentially, the very idea of death has come to you because people
have been talking about it without knowing about it. Otherwise, if your
societies did not speak about it, you would just know the way you are right
now, your present existence, is not permanent. That you would know, but
you would not have any other ideas about it. Even now you do not have
any idea about it; you imagine that you have.
-Sadhguru (excerpt from Life and Death in one breath)

A. Find the words from the text that have the following meanings.

a. a thing that is imagined ………………….

b. a way of looking at something ………………….

c. to force somebody to leave …………….........

d. faced somebody so that you could not avoid …...…………….

e. to make somebody feel better ………………….

B. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words.

a. Death is a ………….. created by human being.

b. Ultimately, we are moving straight to the ……………

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