|
On Death
The Last Talks
Ó KFT
Why
are we all so frightened of death? You know what it means to die. Haven't you
seen dozens of people killed, or hurt? Have you ever enquired very deeply into
what is death? It's very important question, as important as what is life. We
said life is all this rot – knowledge, going to the office every day at nine
o'clock, etc., battling, not wanting this, wanting that We know what living is,
but we have never enquired seriously into what is dying.
What is dying? It must be an extraordinary thing to die. Everything is taken
away from you: your attachments, your money, your wife, your children, your
country, your superstitions, your gurus, your gods. You may wish to take them
into the other world, but you can't so death says, 'Be totally detached'. That's
what happens when death comes: you have no person to lean on. Nothing. You can
believe that you will be reincarnated. That's very comfortable idea, but it's
not a fact.
We are trying to find out what it means to die, while living – not committing
suicide; I am not talking about that kind of nonsense. I want to find out for
myself what it means to die, which means, can I be totally free from everything
that man has created, including myself?
What does it mean to die? To give up everything. Death cuts you off – with a
very, very, very sharp razor – from your attachments, from your gods, from your
superstitions, from your desire for comfort – next life and so on. I am going to
find out what death means because it is as important as living. So how can I
find out, actually, not theoretically, what it means to die? I actually want to
find out, as you want to find out. I am speaking for you, so don't go to sleep.
What does it mean to die? Put that question to yourself. While we are young, or
when we are very old, this question is always there. It means to be totally
free, to be totally unattached to everything that man has put together, or what
you have put together – totally free. No attachments, no gods, no future, no
past You don't see the beauty of it, the greatness of it, the extraordinary
strength of it – while living to be dying. You understand what that means? While
you are living, every moment you are dying, so that throughout life you are not
attached to anything. That is what death means.
So living is dying. You understand? Living means that every day you are
abandoning everything that you are attached to. Can you do this? A very simple
fact, but it has got tremendous implications. So that each day is a new day.
Each day you are dying and incarnating. There is tremendous vitality, energy
there because there is nothing you are afraid of. There is nothing that can
hurt. Being hurt doesn't exist.
All the things that man has put together have to be totally abandoned. That's
what it means to die. So can you do it? Will you try it? Will you experiment
with it? Not for just a day; every day. No, sir, you can't do it; your brains
are not trained for this. Your brains have been conditioned so heavily, by your
education, by your tradition, by your books, by your professors. It requires
finding out what love is. Love and death go together. Death says, 'Be free,
non-attached, you can carry nothing with you'. And love says, love says – there
is no world for it. Love can exist only when there is freedom, not from your
wife, from a new girl, or a new husband, but the feeling, the enormous strength,
the vitality, the energy of complete freedom.
|