“If everything is consciousness, what will happen after death?

 

Q; “If everything is consciousness, what will happen after death?

If you had asked the same question to me in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. In the same way, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. You are the waking entity. You are not the Self. The world in which birth, life, and death take place is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The world in which you exist appeared as the waking experience (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one which appears as waking or dream (duality) and one that disappears as deep sleep (nonduality), is the consciousness.

Wisdom dawns when you realize the ‘Self’ is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The one, which is born, lives, and dies in the world, is not the ‘Self. The ‘Self is the Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

If the Self is not you but the Soul then why you worry about what happens after death because your present experience of birth, life, death, and the world itself is merely an illusion.

If you think this world is real then:

A person, who stamped his foot on the ground to refute to show the world, is real, ignore that in the dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.

When you finally realize the ‘Self ‘ is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Thus, you, your experience birth, life, death, and the world mere an illusion created out of the consciousness, the consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

In Self-awareness-- the witness and witnessed are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus, whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person is a reality within the waking experience (duality) but waking experience (duality) itself is merely an illusion created out of the consciousness. Without or without the waking, consciousness will prevail as consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar