[Jyotir]

Life has an end; the cessation of life is death.
Death has an end; the cessation of death is life.
But consciousness is endless and transcends both.

Right now, we experience death because we identify with a limited instrumental consciousness that is not transcendent by nature or definition.

Therefore “we” or what we identify as “me”, has to take rest from, or review what we experience as life; the limited and limiting consciousness we identify with requires this.

Otherwise if we truly identified with the part of our nature that is infinite and eternal, we would effectively become immortal by transcending that limited nature.

That is the significance of death.