Demystifing Death

It is almost a catharsis. Here Arjuna asks so many questions. However, the main question to Kṛṣṇa is: How does a person who is engaged in practicing Your teachings know You at the time of death? Here starts the whole teaching of Kṛṣṇa. He reveals the secrets of death.

One thing I want to tell you: The West has spent all its energy to understand life. The East has spent all its energy to understand death. Nobody has gone so deeply into, or achieved such deep experiences of death, as our ṛiṣhis, sages have. These masters have done a great service by bringing the knowledge of death to the people who are living.