DEATH IS JUST A CHANGE OF CLOTHES
All major Hindu sacred texts, including Bhagvad Gita, Kathopanishad, Shiva Aagamas, Puranas reiterate that as per the cosmic laws, the jiva atma or individual consciousness, cannot be destroyed. It is a reflection of the cosmic consciousness or paramatma. It is bound by karma and maya, and continues its journey from one janma to another towards final liberation – jivan mukti, living a liberated life, or moksha, emancipation from the cycle of birth and death, when it merges back into the cosmic consciousness.
The cosmic consciousness manifests as many jivas to celebrate itself – “Ekoham Bahushyam,” as said in the Vedas and Upanishads. On the path, it gets deluded and forgets this, and starts having suffering. This is the bondage it needs to free itself from.
So, death is like a change of clothes for the jiva atma. It travels from one body and mind to another, and continues its journey. It has the same circumstances and resources it had in its previous life, in the next life as well.
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