Q:~ What happens to a person after death according to advaitins?
Santthosh Kumaar:~ A person belongs to the dualistic illusion. A person is born, lives, and dies within the dualistic illusion.
A person is the birth entity. The one, who is born, lives, dies in this world is not the ‘Self’ because the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless.
The Self is not a person but the Self is the Soul, therefore, the individual experience of birth, life, and death, and the world has nothing to do with the Soul, the Self, which is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
From a dualistic perspective, the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is a reality whereas from a nondualistic perspective, the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is an illusion. From the Advaitc perspective, the individual who is bound by birth, life, and death does not exist in Advaitic reality.
The orthodoxy accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal Brahman alone is real.
Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion. The illusion has no value from the Advaitic perspective. so the Soul alone is real and eternal. .: ~Santthosh Kumaar
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