The mystics of all religions and spiritual traditions tell us again and again that death is only for the physical body, not for the Soul.

“Truly, it is only this (the body) that dies when the Soul departs from it. The Soul never dies.”
(Upanishad)


The saints speak of death as a wonderful transition from this limited and finite existence to an eternal and infinite immortality.

“So beautiful appeared my death knowing whom I would kiss, I died a thousand times before I died.”
(Rabi’ah)


Death is something perfectly normal, something that we all see every day and something that will inevitably happen to every living being at some time or another. The scriptures tell us it is something very simple and natural.

“Just as a man discards worn out clothes and takes other new clothes so does the embodied Soul discard worn out bodies and takes other new bodies.”
(Srimad Bhagavad Gita)


Death pertains only to the body, which like a machine, is subject to wear and tear, dysfunction and eventually complete breakdown. The Soul, however, is unborn and undying, eternal and immortal. For those people who learn to identify themselves with the Soul instead of the body or for those who have taken refuge in a Higher Power death does not hold so much fear.

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where is your sting?”
(Bible)