"Don't depend on death to liberate you from
your imperfections. You are exactly the same
after death as you were before. Nothing changes;
you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a
liar or a cheater before death, you don't become
an angel merely by dying. If such were possible,
then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and
become angels at once! Whatever you have made
of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And
when you reincarnate, you will bring that same
nature with you. To change, you have to make the
effort. This world is the place to do it."