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S. SATCH: So protect, take care of your health and peace of mind. Then you are fit to serve others. Then you could become a useful person. Then, it is a good living. Make sure that you are always happy and peaceful. Don't do thing that will make you unhappy, and that will disturb your peace or your ease. Disease is nothing but disturbed ease; you had ease before, but you disturbed it. Find out what disturbed your ease. Stay away from those things: my wrong thinking, my wrong food, my wrong activity. You maintain your ease and peace, and then people will find a use for you.
L.M.: One of the greatest fears which meditation seeks to overcome is the fear of death. The ego fears to die.
S. SATCH: Understand what death means-that is the only way to get beyond the fear. What is death after all-who dies? Everybody says: he died. We normally talk like that: Oh, he's dead and gone. Analyze that sentence: dead and gone. It means the body is dead, so he is gone. He was using the body, but now it can't be used any more. Either he became old, or something else, so he left the body. He didn't die, probably he got a better body, another one. If your car is not useful anymore, what do you do? You junk it, get a new model. That's what death means.
L.M.: The problem is that unless the consciousness is developed, the inner consciousness, we are much more attached to our body than say, our car.
S. SATCH: That's the problem, though people are also attached to their cars.
L.M.: That's true, absolutely.
S. SATCH: I heard that one cinema star in Los Angeles buried herself with her Ferrari.
L.M.: That's a pretty big plot.
S. SATCH: She was attached to that car, and anything you are attached to, you carry a burden. So you use it, but don't attach it don't get attached to it. You take good care of it, you use it for sometime; and then anything that is created will decompose.
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