What is born, the objective body, will, in due course, die; thereafter it will be dissolved, i.e., irrevocably annihilated. The life-force will leave the body and mingle with the air outside. The objective part of what was once a sentient being will be destroyed, never to be re-born as the same body. And consciousness is not an object, not a "thing" at all. Therefore, consciousness, as something non-objective, cannot be born, cannot die and certainly cannot be re-born.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
● I have a gold coin. I melt it and make a ring.
● Though the gold has not changed, will it now have any of the features of the coin?
● If the coin was antique, will the ring also be antique?
● The coin - the name and form is the identity superimposed on the gold.
● Will it be known as the rebirth of the coin? The coin is no more.
● The coin - the name and form - is irretrievably lost.
● This is the case of your identity too. It is a superimposed concept.
● It is not born, and cannot be re-born.
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