Acharya Prashant discusses a Zen story where an emperor asks Master Guddo about the state of an enlightened man after death. The Master replies that he does not know because he is not yet dead. Acharya Prashant explains that a man of Zen lives in facts regarding the senses and in truth regarding the self. Death is not a fact but an imagination or a concept. Since one cannot survive to experience their own elimination, death is never a direct experience. The Master’s terse reply serves to redirect the king from imaginary questions about the future to the present reality of living. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that the expression 'after death' is meaningless because time itself stops at death. The assumption that time and the world continue after the individual is gone is not a fact; when the observer is gone, the universe and time also cease to exist for them. He suggests that people often ask about the afterlife because their current lives lack meaning. He concludes that one should be grateful for the absence of such stupid questions and doubts. Truth is often found in what is absent, such as the absence of disease or unnecessary mental queries. If the question of what happens after death has already taken root in someone's mind, it becomes very difficult for any teacher to provide a curative answer.