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consciousness. Go in search of this light, has to accept that whatever happens is for the
concentrate on it: it is within you. With a best and has the sanction of the Lord and has
persevering will you are sure to find it and to be accepted with equanimity. The Mother
as soon as you enter into it, you awake into describes what happens to such subjects who
the sense of immortality. You have always can make the integral surrender:
lived, you will always live; you become
wholly independent of your body; your “There is no longer any room in their
conscious existence does not depend on it; consciousness for fear, anxiety or torment;
and this body is only one of the transient all that has been replaced by a calm and
forms through which you have manifested. delightful bliss (2).”
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 (1).”

Fear of death

This brings us to another significant
perspective. Of all fears the greatest is
the fear of death. If we could learn the
trick of not fearing death, we could at
once surpass many other fears that cause
illnesses and insecurities in life.

When we go to sleep, we never think that
we would not wake up the next day. On
the contrary, we make plans for the next
day. We carry a natural optimism. If we Mind and faith
could keep this attitude always, casually
and therefore without any element of But the mind must get its due in its role to
fear and insecurity, death when it comes support fearlessness. After all, we are mental
would be just another kind of sleep from beings and though the mind is besieged with
where one wakes up in another realm of doubts, there must surely be some other way
consciousness. to carve out a niche for a steady faith and
fearlessness.
The Mother describes other ways to overcome
the fear of death. One such way is a total, This is why yogis in India discovered the
dynamic and integral surrender of all inner space corresponding to the middle
one’s being, consciousness and life to the of the eyebrows that held the famous AAjñaa
Supreme. But this surrender must be absolutely cakra. It is the space in consciousness that
unconditional which makes it difficult to holds the ‘will’ and makes one a visionary.
achieve. The sine qua non of surrender is that one If one can concentrate and activate this

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