Where there is no death in the beginning, there will be none in the end

What was never born cannot die. Consciousness has no beginning (ādi) and no end (anta) because it is not in the causal chain of birth and death. The body is born and dies; thoughts arise and cease; emotions appear and disappear. The consciousness that witnesses all this is not subject to the same cycle. It is not immortal in the sense of “living forever” — it is timeless in the sense of “not being in time.”