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Consciously organizing the different parts around the soul

Sometimes when people are dying, they know that they are about
to die. Why don’t they tell the spirit to go away?

Ah! well, that depends upon the people. Two things are necessary.
First of all, nothing in your being, no part of your being should
want to die. That does not happen often. You have always a de-
featist in you somewhere: something that is tired, something that
is disgusted, something that has had enough of it, something that
is lazy, something that does not want to struggle and says: “Well!
Ah! Let it be finished, so much the better.” That is sufficient, you
are dead.
But it is a fact: if nothing, absolutely nothing in you consents
to die, you will not die. For someone to die, there is always a sec-
ond, perhaps the hundredth part of a second when he gives his
consent. If there is not this second of consent, he does not die.
I knew people who should have really died according to all
physical and vital laws; and they refused. They said: “No, I will not
die”, and they lived. There are others who do not need at all to
die, but they are of that kind and say: “Ah! Well! Yes, so much the
better, it will be finished”, and it is finished. Even that much, even
nothing more than that: you need not have a persistent wish, you
have only to say: “Well, yes, I have had enough!” and it is finished.
So it is truly like that. As you say, you may have death standing
by your bedside and tell him: “I do not want you, go away”, and
it will be obliged to go away. But usually one gives way, for one
must struggle, one must be strong, one must be very courageous
and enduring, must have a great faith in the importance of life;
like someone, for example, who feels very strongly that he has still
something to do and he must absolutely do it. But who is sure he
has not within him the least bit of a defeatist, somewhere, who
just yields and says: “It is all right”?... It is here, the necessity of
unifying oneself.

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