We wonder about what is to come after death but not so much about whether there is a life before death and what is this life, what is the very purpose of this life? And why is it that we make such distinction between life and death? Is there such a distinction and why have we made such a distinction? Is it that our whole life is absorbed in finding some sense of permanence and that, as a result, we are afraid of leaving behind everything we have known - our security, habits, ingrained thought patterns, the images we gather around our sense of importance, our gain, our success or accomplishment or the mere dramas that we like to play out in our heads?

Our present life is based on the known, which represents this movement of past projected into the future. This is all our life, a movement coming from the past directed towards a future and this is what we are afraid of losing, we are afraid of losing all sense of direction - to be nobody with nothing and nowhere to go. Sure enough, when facing the reality of impermanence, such a mind can only be afraid, for when everything known is seen to be of transitory nature, the mind can only come to a place of deep uncertainty and feel a sense of loss. It wonders about what it is to become, again, when death comes its way as an unavoidable final tragedy. But this tragedy is only the result of not letting go of everything of the known, which is the mind itself. Only a limited mind such as this can perceive life in terms of an ending, and this ending is the mind's confrontation with the transitory nature of phenomenon, for it is itself but a result of phenomenal existence and nothing else. However, if the mind were to inquire about its very nature, it would necessarily come to the realization that the known - that to which it is so firmly attached - is nothing other than assumptions based on ignorance and the fear of letting go and of meeting its own death. It is not the body's death that the mind fears, but its own death - the death of everything it is attached to which gives it a false sense of permanency and security.

The question then arises, can the mind come to a place of seeing, with complete objectivity, not only the transitory nature of everything, but the transitory nature of itself? Can it come to a place of complete surrender where all sense of false identification can come to an end? Can the mind come to face the fact that the known is only something that it chooses to be attached to, but that in itself, the so-called known world is nothing but a void? What happens when the mind has come to a place of complete acceptance of the fact of impermanence? Such a mind can only surrender and become still. It is at that moment that death is no longer something unknown, no longer something to fear. That moment of acceptance of impermanency becomes a turning point in the evolution of mind's awakening, the precedence for higher transformations which can only free the mind from the bondage of this illusory world of phenomena. For such a mind there comes the realization that life and death are but a single movement - that life and death follow the same path and walk side by side along the same road of ascendancy, which is the universal course of existence.

When the mind has come to a profound understanding that in order to move on, something has to be left behind; then it can only welcome its transformation, and here begins its evolution towards an expanded sense of identity, one that transcends the personal to embrace universality. It is the realization that one belongs to life as a whole, and that one has no choice but to surrender and follow the expansion of consciousness into the universality of eternal life. When one has subdued the limitations of mind, one may reconnect with the essence of divine oneness and be filled with the totality of all that life and death represent. It is the end of fear, the end of doubt and the answer to all questions. It is the end and the beginning, for death is not merely an ending, but the beginning of a new life, a life of awakened spirit. This is the real life to which we belong, for, in truth, we all participate in a life of spirit under the light of the ultimate Oneness.

Death is no longer something alien but a necessary phase in order for something else to be born. There is no life without death and no death without life. If these two conceptions are deconstructed, not only is death nothing to be afraid of, but may be seen as our own present life brought into something other than life. The life that we have cannot be the life that is real, for a life without death is no longer something living, but more of a crystallized sense of existence, a place of stagnation and ultimately a place of endless suffering - for one can only struggle when such a limitation is imposed on the self, imposed on the vastness of eternal life. One must die in order to be born again. Life is one; to come to this realization is to abide in eternal life. This is what is found when one comes to a place of complete surrender.

The life that we choose to embrace is that which is lost in the death we meet at the end of the road. By choosing to hold on to that life, we invite its demise. The truth is that life and death are but one. Regardless of its efforts in this world, the mind cannot escape its fate: it must eventually ascend into higher states of consciousness. What we call life or death is but again a mere transitory passage. The spirit cannot escape that process of ascendancy. Therefore, in whichever form the spirit may find itself, whether in this so-called life, or in other planes, or in different forms, it will have to face its own limitations and transcend them and then move on with its true purpose.

What we call our life is but our own interpretation. The true Life contains infinite realms and we only perceive what we want to perceive, whereas reality is multidimensional and beyond the comprehension of the mind. The life that we perceive is nothing but our own interpretation of what life is, and this includes our notion of death. These are but concepts that we retain for the preservation of our own false sense of identity. What we call death represents the end of that false identity and this is why we wonder so much about what happens after death...

The spirit of ascendancy that we truly represent is the voice of the Supreme and will journey through the predestined realms of pre-defined existence, whether that may be in this so-called life or after the so-called death. Truly, there is no beginning and no end, no life or death, but only the absolute light of the Supreme which expresses itself through infinite rays of moving worlds and colors.

When fear appears, it reveals the fragility of our sense of identity. This is why we fear fear. When we fear fear, we must ask, what is really the worst thing we can experience? Death? And why do we fear death? The fact is that we are attached to a false sense of identity which revolves around the known. Death is the obliteration of the known.

The fear of fear is actually the meeting with one’s own death. At the heart of the fear of fear is the unwillingness to confront one’s own mortality. More precisely, it’s the fear of confronting the death of the idea of oneself. Ultimately one has to face that fear within in order to no longer fear anything from the outside.