What truly accompanies a person after death, and how should this understanding influence the way we live? Bhagawan explains to us today and also gives us an important tip.

Just ponder for a moment: how many millions of men have died so far? Have any of them taken from here anything to the realm into which they have disappeared? A man was dragged to court; he asked three comrades of his to come and bear witness to his innocence. One friend said, “I shall not move out of the house; let them who want my statement come here”; the second said, “I shall come up to the doors of the court; but, I dare not get in”; the third said, “Come on! I will be ever with you.” The first is the wealth one has accumulated; the second is his kith and kin who will come as far as the cemetery; the third is the name, the honour, he has earned. When a person dies, his property and things remain at home; they do not go with him into the beyond. His relatives cannot also go; only the good or the bad name he has earned will last. So, he has to live in such a way that posterity will remember him with gratitude and joy. To lead the good life, constant prompting from the Lord within is a great help. That inspiration can be got only by constantly reciting the Lord’s Name and calling on the inner springs of Divinity.

- Divine Discourse 1966