What is death after all? There is the saying of the Prophet that the illuminated souls never fear death. Death is the last thing they fear. And yet one does not fear for anything more than for one's life. One could sacrifice anything in the world, wealth, rank, power or possession, if one could live. If living is an innate desire, then it is most necessary to find the process, the way how to get in touch with that real part of ourselves which may be called our being, our self, and thus to become free from what is called mortality. It is the ignorant one who knows only the groundfloor of his house; by going to the first floor of his house, he thinks that he is dead; he does not know that he has only left the ground-floor and is going to the first floor. Why does this ignorance exist? Because he never tried to go to the first floor. The ground-floor is quite enough for him; the first floor does not exist for him, though it is a floor in his own house.