As a fully illumined spiritual Master with free access to the different planes of consciousness, Sri Chinmoy has many time --during deep meditation--traveled through the world of death and far beyond. In this rare book, one of the few genuine and authoritative accounts of death and the afterlife, Sri Chinmoy gives specific, surprising and sometimes astonishing details on:

What happens after death;

How you can overcome the fear of death;

The law of karma: its effect on our current and future lives;

How you can best help someone who is dying;

How reincarnation works;

Can we tell what our next life will be?

The very mention of death instils fear in our hearts. We feel that death is the merciless and inexorable end of our journey on earth, the destroyer of all hopes; but as much as possible we avoid thinking about it altogether. When death strikes in our immediate circle, we are overcome with a sense of permanent loss, and with an intense awareness of our own limitation and mortality.

We cannot escape death, but can we escape the fear of death? In this volume, a fully enlightened spiritual Master teaches us that we can overcome the fear of death. How? By understanding the significance of death as a brief respite in the process of our continuous spiritual evolution, which takes place inside the Heart of our Creator. Sri Chinmoy assures us most convincingly of the immortality of the soul, our divine essence, which proceeds dauntlessly toward the goal of illumination through many lifetimes, adopting many forms. Death, he explains, is a mere pause, an opportunity for renewal and reflection for the soul before its next adventure on earth.

The simplicity and immediacy of Sri Chinmoy's words clarify our doubts and assuage our anxieties about death. With equal mastery he describes the progress-march of reincarnation and the unique opportunity of human birth on this supremely chosen planet. Nothing is ever lost; death itself bows to the indomitable soul. This is the powerful message transparently conveyed by a knower of the Unknown.