When you arrive at a point in your understanding, and know the fact that this body is going to die in any case, and there is nothing you can do to prevent it, then some changes start to occur in you. Have you noticed how society trains you from childhood on how to escape death? Don't put your finger in the socket! Don't get me wrong. These trainings are necessary for the survival of a child; I am not saying those trainings are futile. But the problem with these trainings is that they develop a mind pattern in you; they make you coward, so to say. You cannot think out of the box anymore. Such trainings will keep on playing in your head throughout your life. These are thoughts which are constantly telling you what to avoid and what not to avoid. For example, when you start to drive a car for the first time, your mind constantly throws fearful thoughts and keeps warning you about what could go wrong. It keeps on telling you that you can die here, and others can die, drive slow, and so on. What is the purpose of this commentary? It trains you. Is it good to have one? Damn, yeah! What are the cons of this commentary? No one seems to ask this question.

When you arrive at this juncture: just catch your mind in action, telling you what to avoid and what not to avoid so that you can checkmate death, then an understanding dawns on you; courage emerges. Who is avoiding death in you? Your thinking? Who is witnessing this thinking operating in you? How long are you going to avoid it? Are you avoiding physical pain that may happen during the time of death? Why do you want to save this life? Just to carry out your daily chores? That's all the importance of life to you? Don't worry! Death will hunt you down anyway, even if you plan to stay in a bunker or Fallout shelter! It could be coming through cancer or old age. But the question remains: who is avoiding it in you?

Understand this: I am not speaking of the superficial intellectual understanding that everyone has, that they are going to die one day, but it changes nothing in their lives, in their behavior, in their attitude. You continue to live in the same old manner. It is similar to merely reading the compounding formula from your high school book and never understanding it. If you do not understand it, it changes nothing in you. You will get the opportunity to ask these questions to yourself when death strikes you for the first time, or when you narrowly escape from an accident, or when you see abnormalities in your blood reports that could be alarming. These are just examples; life has millions of ways to teach you this fact, and it is constantly doing that. It is just that you're blind like a pigeon who shuts his eyes when attacked by a cat. If the understanding dawns on you, the pigeon will fly.........................