MEET YOURSELF AGAIN

We are born of God and we die in God, and so God is where we meet ourselves again.

It is said that we are closest to God at birth and at death, that is before we become somebody, an egoic self, and then after we cease to be somebody, with the natural waning of the egoic self, and the return of innocence.

In Vedantic terms, the Atman is manifested in the physical world, in the world of form, during which it is, in effect, out of touch with its source the Brahman. It is covered by sheaths which constitutes a human being, and until those sheaths are surmounted, the Atman remains alienated from the Brahman.

But in the same way that a seed in the ground sends up a shoot that, inevitably, breaks through to the light of day, so, too, the Atman attaining once again, in time, its source.  Here, it is the Atman meeting itself once more in the Brahman.