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When one human being understands the full significance of death and the depth...

When one human being understands the full significance of death and the depth...

Public Talk 5 in Bombay (Mumbai), 6 February 1982

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When one human being understands the full significance of death and the depth of it, the vitality and fullness of that word and what lies behind it, they are out of human consciousness. What happens to people who have not completely broken away from the content of human consciousness? Suppose I have not gone into myself and studied the whole content of my consciousness, and I die with fear and separation. What happens to me when I die? I thought I was a separate individual, my consciousness and soul separate. Will I continue this separation as an individual next life? If I believe in a next life, what matters is how I behave now. But I don’t believe in reincarnation really because I am not behaving now. Reincarnation is just a trick of the brain to give some kind of solace or comfort. If you really believed in it, you would have extraordinarily good minds and be a good human being now. But we want power, money, status, position, sex and money, so consciousness will continue in that state. This is the agony of a life of pleasure and pain. But when you understand that life and death are one, when you end your attachment, beliefs, antagonisms, prejudices, conclusions and your gods, negate all that, you are then living side by side with death, which is the most extraordinary thing to do. Which is, there is neither the past, present nor future; there is only ending.

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