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is the criterion. If you die beautifully and I don't know anything about your life, I know only your face in death, I can write your whole biography. Because in death you cannot deceive -- in life you can. In life you can smile when there is anger within, you can give a false appearance, but in death nobody is so cunning. Death reveals the true. Death brings your reality to the very surface of your face. So whenever you die, your death will show how you lived, whether your life was a real life, authentic, or an ugly dishonest life.
A saint is not known in life, because he may be just posing; a saint is known only in death, because then you cannot pose.
TO RETURN TO THE ROOT IS REPOSE. A saint dies in grace, death becomes the very crescendo of the whole life, the final touch.
IT IS CALLED GOING BACK TO ONE'S DESTINY. Everything returns back to its source.
In the West they have a concept of linear progress; in the East we have a concept of circular progress. These concepts are totally different and much depends on them. In the West they think that everything moves in a line and goes on moving in a line, a straight line. In the East we think everything moves in a circle, in a wheel -- the very word sansar, the world, means the wheel. Everything comes back to its source, again and again and again. That's how the seasons move, that's how the earth moves, that's how the sun moves, that's how the whole firmament and the stars move -- in a circle. The circle is the basic process and the circle is life's eternal law. It is not linear. If things move in a line then history becomes very important because never again will the same thing happen. That's why in the West, history became so important. In the East we have never bothered about history; we have not in fact written history, we have written only mythology, puran. puran is not history because we don't bother about history.
If everything moves in a circle the same thing will happen, again and again; so we are concerned with the essential, we are not concerned with the fact. Nobody bothers when Buddha was born but Westerners are very much concerned about it, about the date when he was
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