MIND THINKS IN TERMS OF SEPARATENESS, division analysis. Through the mind, life is divided into fragments. Life itself is not divided; life itself is a unity. Life itself remains undivided, but the mind thinks in terms of fragments so whatsoever the mind says is bound to be false.

The tree over there, the sky above you, the earth, you, and everything is in a deep unity. The tree appears to be separate from you. but it is not. it cannot be. The sun is so far away. but you cannot exist here if the sun dies. Immediately, you will cease to exist here. Without the sun there -- ten crore miles away -- you cannot exist here. If the sun ceases to exist we will never be able to know that it has ceased, because there will be no one to know it. We are part of the rays of it.

The whole universe is a cosmic unity. You are not isolated; you are not like an island. You are connected; you are rooted in the ocean of existence just like a wave.

It has to be felt deeply and truly just once. One cannot enter the total ecstasy of existence; because if you think yourself separate you cannot merge if you think yourself separate you cannot surrender. If you think that you are not separate, surrender becomes easy; it happens. If you feel that you are one with life, you can trust it. Then there is no fear. Then you can die in it happily, ecstatically. Then there is no fear of death.

The fear of death comes into existence because you think that you are separate. Then you start fighting, then you start protecting. You start seeing yourself as an enemy, in conflict. You think in terms of conquering, of being victorious. But then you will be defeated; your defeat is certain. You are just a part of the whole, but you go on fighting with the whole. That's why, everywhere, you see that everyone is a failure: defeated, frustrated. And in the end, everyone comes to realize that life has been a long defeat and nothing else. Not only those who are unsuccessful feel it. Those who are successful also feel it. Napoleon, Alexander, even they feel defeated.

Why is this so? It is because you are not separate from that what is. One goes beyond anxiety, beyond the fear of death, because now he knows that he is not and the whole is. Then how can there be fear? Even death becomes a communion, a meeting It is not dissolving. Rather, it is merging. It is not something that is against you. Rather, it is a deep relaxation for you.

Life is tension anxiety and to move into a deep relaxation, you move back to the source again. The wave shall rise again, but for the moment of death it has ceased; it has gone into the ocean to rest. The universe appears to be in different forms a multi-billion forms, but only forms differ. The substance the innermost core remains one. This attitude will help you to move into meditation very easily. If you are afraid of death you cannot allow yourself to move totally into meditation because meditation is a kind of death, a sort of death. Consciously, voluntarily, you are merging yourself into the whole. You are dying as an individual, as an ego, and becoming one with the egoless existence. You are already dead, so how can you die again? One who has entered meditation is already dead. Now you cannot die again, now death cannot destroy you. You have already surrendered; you are no more. Death will enter an empty house. You will not be found there.

KILL OUT ALL SENSE OF SEPARATENESS. Just become a drop -- a drop of water that has fallen into the ocean and become one with it. The one who is afraid is a false phenomenon, a false entity -- an entity that is created by the feeling of separateness.