A. A person physique is to the true-Self as a wave is to the ocean and as wind is to air. What occurs to a wave within the sea after its loss of life? What occurs to wind after its loss of life? After a wave loses its type, that’s, after it dies, the ocean, the essence of the wave remains to be there. We don’t assume that the ocean dies or is destroyed when a wave disappears. After loss of life, everybody, no matter whether or not she or he is enlightened or not, nonetheless stays the place she or he has been. It’s best to know that the essence of our being is the true-Self, Oneness, and that every little thing we see and listen to, together with our particular person our bodies, is simply a part of, or the operate of the true-Self, simply as all waves of all shapes and all sizes are merely a part of, or the operate of the ocean.
The distinction between an enlightened individual and an unenlightened individual is that the previous is conscious of this reality whereas the latter shouldn’t be. The previous is aware of that loss of life shouldn’t be the tip of our being however solely a tiny a part of the countless change of the eternal true-Self. So, it’s stated that to the enlightened there isn’t any loss of life, while the unenlightened are haunted by a ghost of loss of life that doesn’t exist.
©Boo Ahm
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