59.
Erroneously you have handed
over this knowledge ‘I am’
to
the body and thereby reduced
the limitless to the limited;
hence
you are afraid of dying.
Just
try to recollect the moment
when you came to know that
‘you are’
or the knowledge ‘I am’
appeared.
Initially,
in that nascent stage you
only knew ‘I am’ and
periodically
you
drifted into the state of ‘I
am not’.
This
lasted for some time and
then parents, people and the
environment
around
you began encroaching on the
purity of your ‘I am’.
You were made to wear the
uniform or garb of
‘so-and-so’ and here began
the whole error.
The
limitless was reduced to the
limited and you became an
individual
encased
in a body.
You
were told that you had been
born and you inferred you
would die one day.
You
love this ‘I am’ this
‘beingness’, you do not want
to lose it at any cost,
and
hence the fear of death
prevails.