Sogoingthroughthisportaldoesnotmeanannihilation?
Aswithalltheotherportals,yourradianttruenatureremains,
but not the personality. In any case, whatever is real or of
true value in your personality is your true nature shining
through.Thisisneverlost.Nothingthat is ofvalue,nothing
thatisreal,iseverlost.
Approaching death and death itself, the dissolution of
the physicalform,isalways agreat opportunityforspiritual
realization.Thisopportunityistragicallymissedmost ofthe
time,sinceweliveinaculturethatisalmosttotallyignorant
ofdeath,asitisalmosttotallyignorantofanythingthattruly
matters.
Every portal is a portal of death, the deathof the false
self. When you go through it, you cease to derive your
identityfromyourpsychological,mind-madeform.Youthen
realize that death is an illusion, just as your identification
with form was an illusion. The end of illusion — that’s all
thatdeathis.Itispainfulonlyaslongasyoudingtoillusion.