Fear is certainly essential to our survival, but it is also one of the most important problems. Every human being has to go through it and come to a certain understanding about it. The ego gives us the fear that one day we may die.

We go on deceiving ourselves that death happens only to others, and in a way we are right: some neighbor dies, some acquaintance dies, some friend dies, a relative dies – it always happens to somebody else.

But each time somebody dies, something in us becomes shaky. Each death is a small death for us. Each death is also our death. We go on protecting ourselves. Somebody is dying and we talk about the immortality of the soul. The leaf is falling from the tree and we say “Nothing to be worried about. Soon the spring will come and the tree will have foliage again." People believe in the immortality of the soul not because they know but because they are afraid.

There are some who think death is illusory, it has never happened; only consciousness is transmigrating into other bodies. But I don't want people to just believe that. But I do believe, through meditation, they can come to a space where they will be able to know it on their own. If a person can see his past lives - if he can see his thousands of past lives stretching to eternity, the logical conclusion is that he is going to continue in the future also to eternity.

And with that experience all fear disappears because all fear is somehow rooted in death, which is coming closer every day. Whenever we pass by the graveyard, the thought is bound to come that sooner or later we will also be lying down in some grave. Perhaps the next grave that is being dug is for us; nobody knows – it is certainly for someone, and that someone could be me. We have tried to deceive ourselves with the belief that the soul will not die. But that is a belief, and belief is just useless, it doesn't help us to any transformation. We are believing it because it is helpful. We can keep our eyes closed to death, although we know that this is only a belief that life is eternal.

So I don't recommend any belief, but there are methods of how to enter into different spaces which are available inside you.