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hour of death seems therefore to be inexorably fixed, except for a very few individuals who
possess powers that the human race in general does not command. Reason teaches us that
it is absurd to fear something that one cannot avoid. The only thing to do is to accept the
idea of death and quietly do the best one can from day to day, from hour to hour, without
worrying about what is going to happen. This process is very effective when it is used by
intellectuals who are accustomed to act according to the laws of reason; but it would be
less successful for emotional people who live in their feelings and let themselves be ruled
by them. No doubt, these people should have recourse to the second method, the method
of inner seeking. Beyond all the emotions, in the silent and tranquil depths of our being,
there is a light shining constantly, the light of the psychic consciousness. Go in search of
this light, concentrate on it; it is within you. With a persevering will you are sure to find it
and as soon as you enter into it, you awake to the sense of immortality. You have always
lived, you will always live; you become wholly independent of your body; your conscious
existence does not depend on it; and this body is only one of the transient forms through
which you have manifested. Death is no longer an extinction, it is only a transition. All fear
instantly vanishes and you walk through life with the calm certitude of a free man.

The third method is for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given
themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are an
expression of the divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but
with gratitude, for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their
own good. They have a mystic trust in their God and in their personal relationship with
him. They have made an absolute surrender of their will to his and feel his unvarying
love and protection, wholly independent of the accidents of life and death. They have the
constant experience of lying at the feet of their Beloved in an absolute self-surrender or of
being cradled in his arms and enjoying a perfect security. There is no longer any room in
their consciousness for fear, anxiety or torment; all that has been replaced by a calm and
delightful bliss.

But not everyone has the good fortune of being a mystic.

Finally there are those who are born warriors. They cannot accept life as it is and they feel
pulsating within them their right to immortality, an integral and earthly immortality. They
possess a kind of intuitive knowledge that death is nothing but a bad habit; they seem to be
born with the resolution to conquer it. But this conquest entails a desperate combat against
an army of fierce and subtle assailants, a combat that has to be fought constantly, almost
at every minute. Only one who has an indomitable spirit should attempt it. The battle has
many fronts; it is waged on several planes that intermingle and complement each other.

The first battle to be fought is already formidable: it is the mental battle against a collective
suggestion that is massive, overwhelming, compelling, a suggestion based on thousands of
years of experience, on a law of Nature that does not yet seem to have had any exception. It

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