Imagine An Afterlife

One can imagine an afterlife where one no longer has a body, where there is no need for breath, where the mind doesn’t process data anymore. But as long as there is individuality, there must be a faint sense of both ego and bliss. Ego says, “This is happening to me.” Bliss says, “I feel the spark of creation.”

~Deepak Chopra

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Ego is so hard to
give up and so is
the desire for bliss,
even after your death –
rotting in a box or floating
in an urn in holy Ganges.

But one can still imagine
an afterlife with a faint
sense of both, ego and bliss.
What? In afterlife a faint
sense of ego and bliss!
What nonsense!

Ego talking of happenings
and the bliss of blessings.
What nonsense!
What else one could
imagine and faintly sense
besides this nonsense?