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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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Strange behaviour in old age
Even those who have been here for a very long time become
strange in their old age. Is it because consciousness depends on
one’s health?

In no way. Consciousness is eternal and nothing can affect it. But
the physical body is rarely infused with consciousness, and, even
when it is, it is only partly infused.
The body, as it is at present, is like a musical instrument (piano
or violin) and if some strings or notes are missing, then even the
most perfect musician cannot perfectly express music through
them.
The consciousness is intact, but its expression is incomplete.

Conquering death and winning immortality
The vital world is mostly like that and those who live exclu-
sively in the physical and vital go there after death. But there is
the Grace!...
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, cravings persist
with the sense of frustration and disappointment, and all that pre-
vents you from finding the expected peace. To enjoy a peaceful
and eventless death you must prepare for it. And the only effec-

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