NATURE OF FOREVER

Immortality, according to Vedanta, is not a continuity of existence in time, since it is beyond time, space, and causation, but is a superconscious state that occurs when the individual soul, the Atman, awakens into its source, the Godhead, Brahman.

Nothing of the egoic, empirical self, of the "earth suit" as Aja Thomas, a Vedic priest, calls it, enters eternity.  We don't have to worry about "What will I do with all that time?" or "Will I see my aunt Tilly?" or even "Will I know God there?"  No "I" survives to face such matters.

It is the Atman that carries over, and the Atman is not an individual but consciousness, a consciousness that has no personality.  It is awareness only.  Watching, witnessing, is all the Atman does.

At the same time, it is spirit, which is infinite bliss, joy, and peace, qualities which after all draw us to it, which make us want to meditate upon it and to help it realize its destiny, which is immortality.