Death is a universal occurrence; yet it is the least understood
phenomenon. According to early writings of Wittgenstein, this is
because death is not an event in one’s life – we do not live to
experience death. He upheld that “at death the world does not
alter, but comes to an end”. However, he added, “our life has no
end in just the same way in which our visual field has no
limits”. After death, life becomes unmanifest. Wittgenstein’s
view is similar to that of the Bhagwad Gita’s verse 28 in the
second chapter: “All beings remain unmanifest in the beginning;
they become manifest in the middle. After death they certainly
become unmanifest”. What is eternal, ever-existing and ever-
unchanging is Atman, the soul. The atman, like energy, can
neither be created nor destroyed. It is infinite, formless,
attribute-less, all-pervading, indivisible, timeless, and space-
less. Atman only transmigrates. The Gita says, it cannot be cut
by weapons, nor burnt by fire, moistened by water, and cannot be
dried by air. It is the