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is still alive, and then to return from this region and re-enter the
physical body, resuming the course of material existence with full
knowledge. But for that one must be an initiate.
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... if one must for some reason or other leave one’s body and take
a new one, is it not better to make of one’s death something mag-
nificent, joyful, enthusiastic, than to make it a disgusting defeat?
Those who cling on, who try by every possible means to delay the
end even by a minute or two, who give you an example of frightful
anguish, show that they are not conscious of their soul.... After all,
it is perhaps a means, isn’t it? One can change this accident into a
means; if one is conscious one can make a beautiful thing of it, a
very beautiful thing, as of everything. And note, those who do not
fear it, who are not anxious, who can die without any sordidness are
those who never think about it, who are not haunted all the time by
this “horror” facing them which they must escape and which they
try to push as far away from them as they can. These, when the oc-
casion comes, can lift their head, smile and say, “Here I am.”
It is they who have the will to make the best possible use of
their life, it is they who say, “I shall remain here as long as it is neces-
sary, to the last second, and I shall not lose one moment to realise
my goal”; these, when the necessity comes, put up the best show.
Why? — It is very simple, because they live in their ideal, the truth of
their ideal; because that is the real thing for them, the very reason
of their being, and in all things they can see this ideal, this reason
of existence, and never do they come down into the sordidness of
material life.
So, the conclusion:
One must never wish for death.
One must never will to die.
One must never be afraid to die.
And in all circumstances one must will to exceed oneself.
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