Another Choice

So, here it is.

All of us, however many we are, possess one certainty and one alone: we are going to die.

Death shall come.

Alone, death is sure to come.

Whatever may be our accomplishments or our lacks and lacunae, our quests and our findings, our social position or our individual situation, our condition, our assets, our capacities or infirmities, we only really know one thing: we will one day die.

Death is thus the single and only absolute which nothing, neither any power nor any knowledge, is able to question.

And even for those who have passed through the stages and obtained a spiritual realization, the new certainty which was revealed to their individual awareness is only tangible to the subtle members of their inner being: the physical being itself does not know what they know or declare that they know, it does not have the concrete certainty of a superior, immortal existence.

Its only, single absolute certainty remains: that death shall come.

That the body and the entire cognitive and experiential experience which the body alone makes possible, will cease to be, will be destroyed.

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Perhaps, in the entire history of the life of humanity upon earth, those who as the Aborigines of Australia have developed their center of experience in sleep, that is through the capacities of the subtle bodies and no longer only those of the material body which are measurable and verifiable, are the only ones who were able to relativize the fact of death, of the disintegration of the material body.

The fact of death effectively governs our human existence upon earth and each of our lives.

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