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Originally Posted by revolver
No, we become nothing, our identity as the ego and all of its conditioning is finished, just like the light that goes through the projector and the story of the movie is seen on the screen. At death the story is finished but the light is still there, the light being Consciousness.
We are like the bulbs throughout the house, each bulb is lite by the electricity, when the bulb is no longer working we replace that bulb, the old bulb is finished and the new bulb is lite by the same electricity, and so with us, but instead of electricity its Consciousness.
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It may be more accurate to think of the light as the Divine source of our "being". The EGO is the stain on the lens that prevents the light reflecting our full potential. As the EGO becomes wiser and more knowledgeable it then starts letting more light through so that eventually the EGO will cease to exist and all that is left of us is pure Divinity. How many lifetimes this will take is any ones guess.
Our EGO's are going through a progressive process. They don't just "burn" out. It is the same EGO at every reincarnation but hopefully a progressively wiser one having retained the values learned at it previous carnation.