Somebody asked: ‘Why do you call death a god? Death is the enemy. If you call death the devil it is okay, but why do you call it a god?’ Because death is the door to God. Your death is deeper than your life. When you move through that death consciously, you will come to a life which doesn't belong to you or me or to anybody. It is the life of the whole. Death is God.

Chapter Titles:
Chapter 1: Death Is the Master
Chapter 2: The Thirst for the Deathless
Chapter 3: Worthy of Truth
Chapter 4: Alight with the Inner Fire
Chapter 5: Never Born, Never Dies
Chapter 6: The One, Indivisible
Chapter 7: The Flowering of Godliness
Chapter 8: Dissolved in the Universal Soul
Chapter 9: This, Is That
Chapter 10: The One Reality
Chapter 11: None Can Transcend It
Chapter 12: This Direct Knowing
Chapter 13: Freedom From Birth and Death
Chapter 14: The Great Death
Chapter 15: Religion Is Desirelessness
Chapter 16: A Trusting Heart
Chapter 17: The Deathless One

Excerpt from The Message Beyond Words
Chapter 1

"The Upanishads are unique scriptures on this Earth about the mysteries of life, and the Kathopanishad is unique amongst all the Upanishads. Before we enter into this Upanishad, it will be good to understand the inner current that is underlying this Kathopanishad.

The first thing is that in this world, one who wants to know life must himself go through the experience of death. Except for this there is no other way.

To know life one has to learn the art of dying. And the one who is afraid of death will remain unacquainted with life also, because death is the innermost and the most mysterious center of life. Only those who enter into death consciously, with awareness and a welcoming heart, can know this life."