What Happens in Death?

The Body-Consciousness

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In the earlier post, (written down just before this), it was pointed out :

The body-consciousness or "I am body" idea is itself the very bondage. This idea is the illusion that takes place in consciousness.  Consciousness is the ground and support where this idea / thought arises. And this thought then is at once identified with the physical body that is there with the world around it. Thus proceeds the ignorance :

"I am this body, in this world".

This is precisely what is body-consciousness  or the acceptance about oneself that there is a world and I am in this world.

This simple and spontaneous thought that arises in the consciousness is "I-sense" or the अहंकार / अहं-वृत्ति. 

Having once accepted this fundamentally erroneous notion one accordingly identifies oneself with whatever that is experienced in and through this notion. Memory takes place and then Thoughts, feeling, experiences like the 3 states of mind namely the waking, the dream and the deep dreamless sleep appear and go away in there turn and though the consciousness alone is their support wherein this all phenomenon takes place, the sense. "I am" connects them all and apparently in a way is assumed as if rules over them.

When attention is given to the fact :

This I-sense is because of consciousness and the consciousness is truly the timeless and the unborn, undying, imperishable and the  immutable reality, which is devoid of any "I", and the "I -sense" too. This understanding :

I am / Existence is verily Intelligence only, is named variously as Atman -आत्मा, Brahman - ब्रह्मन्, Consciousness -चैतन्य , where Existence / being is knowing and knowing is being also.

सत् - Existence चित् (चैतन्य) - Consciousness are two aspects and names given to this Reality that is this Intelligence.

What happens in Death? 

Even whether one knows or doesn't know; - in death too this consciousness does not die, but the sense "I am body" comes to end. And though one can think : "I am going to die" this death too passes by.

Having discovered :

"I am not the body, I am but the Intelligence only"  one consciously realizes that the Self is immortal Reality and becomes truly free.

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