We are Eternal. That’s the one thing that we need to understand. Till that moment of realisation arrives we’ll keep floating in this eternal ocean of matter as one life to another. We’ll take birth, grow, die and again go through the same cycle.
I’ll write this thing down in the hope of expressing it as much as I can even though I know it is extremely difficult to express these things in words. That’s precisely the reason it is said that you cannot limit God to words.
So, consider this entire universe as a single body. Let’s say for example that your body is the universe itself. Then just like in your body the universe is consisting of separate beings which are functioning individually according to their own perspective. Yet on the other side they’re actually a part of a single body. These separate beings are continuously in the process of changing to become new things, changing the collective in a whole. Thus if we apply the same logic to the universe then we can realise that this universe is also in the continuous process of change. Therefore, the change will always be there, it’s like we’re here today, we’ll not be there tomorrow and then the day after we can again reappear in a new appearance, in a changed way. We won’t remember the old appearance at all in most of the cases mind you. This is because the apparent physical appearance is chopping and changing every moment whereas the spirit is not, never.
We only take it as life-death, beginning-end with our ignorance and attachment. It is not really that but it appears to be that way. Our appearances are never ending as it will continue like night and day. We will float in this cycle of life-death and appearances through eternity as separate beings or we can realise ourselves as the Spirit and be free of the cycle right this instance. Om Shanti..