The wish remains unfulfilled because that which we want by extending our dead life cannot be had through extension. It can be had only through termination of the dead life. So our ways are stupid. That which must be terminated is rather extended by us. We need to give death to death. This dead life needs to be brought to death, and then you will give death to a dead life, death to death, which is good. Instead we keep trying to prolong the dead life. And if you are prolonging a dead life, you are only prolonging the death that you are living.
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Acharya Prashant: When the body dies, the body dies. The enlightened one has died far before the body dies. So there is nobody remaining to die along with the body, or to fear the death of the body. The enlightened one is gone in his lifetime. The psychological self, the ego-self, is no more. And that is what you symbolically call enlightenment. So enlightenment is an inner death before the outer physical death.
Listener: What is in between? When enlightenment happens and then the body dies, in that time.
Acharya Prashant: There is no “you.” There is just the body. There is just the body, the limbs, the brain taking care of the physical survival, because the physicality is all that has remained in the name of the person. And because physicality is now not being driven by a petty ego-self, hence it is integrated with something far larger.
