Acharya Prashant addresses the misconceptions surrounding death, rebirth, and suicide, emphasizing that nothing 'leaves' the body at the moment of death. Using the analogy of a rusting bridge, he explains that death is simply a physical threshold being reached where the structure can no longer sustain itself. He clarifies that Vedanta does not support the concept of individual rebirth; instead, it describes the cycle of nature where the totality of existence manifests in new forms. He uses the metaphor of an ocean and its waves to illustrate that while the 'ocean' (existence) continues, the 'wave' (the individual) has only one life. He argues that the belief in a personal soul or individual rebirth has historically fostered harmful social structures like casteism and fatalism.
