Do Nondualists Believe in Eternal Life?
You may have been taught that you enter into eternity when you die. But Nondualists offer a radically different observation: you are already in eternity right now. More precisely, eternity is your own nature. The human perception of the passage of time is an illusion. It is a trick of the brain done by measuring apparent change. When you say that time has passed, you are not actually looking at the past. Rather, you are using memory to do a comparison between what is now and what is past. You mean that something has changed from what you remember it to have been. The past is always in the form of memory (which is why J. Krishnamurti repeatedly stated that the past is dead and only the present is alive). Similarly, when you think about the future, you are not actually looking at the future. You are using imagination to do a comparison between what is now and what might be. The future is always in the form of imagination. Thus, remembrance of the past and imagination of the future are al
