Those who have the inner urge to achieve the higher wisdom that confers liberation have to reflect upon and investigate the phenomenon of death. Death should arouse no fear. It should not be regarded as inauspicious. Neither should you run away from the problem imagining that death happens only to others, and that it will not happen to you, nor should you postpone reflections on death judging that they are inappropriate now and profitless. For inquiry into death is really inquiry into one’s own Reality. This truth has to be recognised.

- Sathya Sai Vahini, Chap 13: "The Avatar as Guru"