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as we are in a body, undoubtedly we have yet something to do or
learn therein.
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Expect nothing from death. Life is your salvation.
It is in life that you must transform yourself. It is upon earth
that you progress and it is upon earth that you realise. It is in the
body that you win the Victory.

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This suggestion of death comes from the “ego” when it feels that
soon it will have to abdicate. Keep quiet and fearless. Everything
will be all right.
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You speak of absolute renunciation, but to give up the body is not
the absolute renunciation. The true and total renunciation is to
give up the ego which is a much more arduous endeavour. If you
have not renounced your ego, to give up the body will not bring
freedom to you.
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Death is not at all what you believe it to be. You expect from death
the neutral quietness of an unconscious rest. But to obtain that
rest you must prepare for it.
When you die you lose only your body and at the same
time the possibilities of relation with and action on the material
world. But all that belongs to the vital world does not disappear
with the material substance; all your desires, attachments, crav-
ings persist with the sense of frustration and disappointment, and
all that prevents you from finding the expected peace. To enjoy a
peaceful and eventless death you must prepare for it. And the only
effective preparation is the abolition of desires.
So long as we have a body we have to act, to work, to do
something: but if we do it simply because it has to be done, with-

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