Hence I call thoughtless awareness
the door to experiencing life.
And the one who comes to know life comes to know all.
He comes to know death as well
because death is nothing but a fallacy
born out of not knowing life.
One who does not know life
naturally believes himself to be the body.
And the body dies, the body is destroyed;
the entity called body disappears.
It is this that gives birth to the concept
that death is a total end.
Only those who are a little more courageous
accept this concept.
It is also out of this very fallacy of believing oneself to be the body
that the fear of death is born.
It is the people suffering this fear who start chanting,
“the soul is immortal, the soul is immortal.”
The fearful and weak seek refuge in this way.
But both these concepts
are born out of one and the same fallacy.
These are two forms of the same fallacy
and are two different reactions of two types of people.
But, remember, the fallacy of both is the same,
and in both ways it is the same fallacy
that is strengthened.
I do not want to give any kind of support to this fallacy.
If I say the soul is not immortal, then that is an untruth.
If I say the soul is immortal,
then that becomes an escape from your fear.
And those who are in fear
are never able to know the truth.
Hence, I say death is unknown.
Know life. Only that can be known.
And upon knowing that, immortality is also known.
Life is eternal.
There is no beginning and no end to it.
It manifests, it unmanifests.
It moves from one form to another form.
In our ignorance,
these transition points of change look like death.
But for one who knows,
death is nothing more than changing houses.
Certainly there is rebirth;
but for me it is not a doctrine, it is an experience.
And I don’t want to make it a doctrine for others either.
Doctrines have badly undermined the truth.
I want every person to know it for themselves.
Nobody can perform this act for the other.
But, through doctrines,
it is this very act that appears to have been accomplished,
thus everybody’s individual search
has become dull and dead.
Believing in the doctrines and scriptures
one has sat down quietly,
as if one has neither to know anything for oneself,
nor has to do anything about finding the truth.
This situation is utterly suicidal.
Hence, I don’t want to participate