BIRTH... DEATH.... BIRTH....

A Life is just a journey till DEATH, which in itself is the only certainty.... However DEATH is not the final destination.

The real destination is the complete ascension of our "immortal soul" .. the ATMAN, which is housed within the mortal body in each journey of LIFE. The individual soul... the ATMAN and the universal BRAHMAN are one and the same....hence all living beings of the plant world, the animal world and the human world are all part of the same BRAHMAN..... and that is the central principle of the "Unity of Life".

The search / quest for immortality can happen within ones LIFE itself, and not after one's death in the current life. Both in the East and in the West, many living souls have been enabled by proper spiritual rigor and discipline to transcend the conditioning of time, place and the mortal physical body. For such people, there is no death !! The mortal body is cast off after each life.... but there is no interruption of consciousness when the body is cast off. This is because their identification with their body and senses have already been severed before DEATH.... They have DIED BEFORE THEIR DEATH....

In deep meditation, when consciousness is withdrawn from the body and senses, one actually experiences moments when one goes out of the body. The five senses subside and you are able to revel in your true eternal nature. That is a taste of immortality, right here on earth. Brings a deep sense of peacefulness ... which in itself is addictive and one becomes more and more willing to extend these moments throughout the day . Once we accomplish that, all false identification with the body and senses is severed. We realize that we are not the body, but the immortal self the Atman.

And when the moment of the certainty which is DEATH does come, it is just a matter of shedding the body that the ATMAN has occupied in this life. And getting ready for the next one....

Eventually as the soul is purified repeatedly in the many such training grounds called LIFE in the many incarnations that we take, one is ready for ascension and move away from the SAMSARA... the karmic cycle of life and Death.