The God of death is called Kaala, time. Time is the God of death; time knows no mercy; when the time is over, you have to leave; each day, your span is shortened by 24 hours. He is as omnipresent and omnipotent as time. He does not run a rope factory to drag into his home all the millions who die. The dying person has the rope already spun and twisted round his neck: He has only to come and pull. He spins the rope by every act of his, during all the year of his life, now or in the past. All acts done with egoism, self-interest, an eye on the beneficial consequence, the fruits, give a little more length, a stronger twist to that rope. (SSS Vol.4, p. 264)