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When life-breath does not flow freely, the person ceases to live. But all this is imaginary. How can infinite consciousness cease to be? The person is nothing but infinite consciousness. Who dies and when, to whom does this infinite consciousness belong and how? even when millions of bodies die, this consciousness exists undiminished.
When there is cessation of the flow of life-breath, the consciousness of the individual becomes utterly passive. ….The body is said to be ‘dead’ or ‘inert’. The life-breath returns to its source—air—and consciousness freed from memory and tendencies remains as the self.
That atomic ethereal particle which is possessed of these memories and tendencies is known as the jiva: and it remains there itself, in the space where the dead body is. And they refer to it as departed soul. That jiva now abandons its ideas and what it had been seeing till then, and perceives other things as in dreaing or day-draming.
After a momentary lapse of consciousness, the jiva begins to fancy that it sees another body, another world and another life-span.
Whatever the jiva sees, it experiences.
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