It is precisely in order to see that this obstacle is removed and one gets at the ultimate goal of human life that one goes to the preceptor or Guru. The Guru has destroyed the limiting mind and he knows the method as to how one has to destroy it. He will be in no way better than what he was. It seems that one does not want to practise anything, but there is only the expectation of the result. This life on earth is a halting place on the way to the achievement of the Goal of life.
Earthly life is transitory, for it is seen that everything that is born dies.
Death is not the end of life, since without a continuation of life therefrom the value of the deeds and experiences in this life would be rendered nugatory. There were births and deaths in the past, there will be births and deaths in the future, too, until Self-realisation is attained. Life is a long chain of which the recurring births, planetary lives and deaths are links. Birth is caused by desires and actions, and birth becomes the cause of further desires and actions. This present life is, therefore, meant to train the individual to qualify himself for a higher life.