Living in a matrix

Whenever a person is dead, we say that his soul has gone to heaven.However we still identify the soul with the ego.Hence our attachment to our ego is so strong that it prevents us from knowing who we really are.If the ego is not permanent, since death extinguish the ego, the question is who then is the soul.As no one has ever seen the soul, it remains an enigma.Yet the soul is the ultimate reality.
We are living in a matrix , a world created by the mind and ego.This world is an illusion since it is not permanent and subject to change.In this world, there is duality, time ,space and impermanence.In the Ultimate Reality there is none of these attributes.
We know that in sleep or if we become unconscious, we are unaware of our ego and the world.What we encounter in sleep is that we have dreams.The life that we are living now is a dream also.In our ordinary state of consciousness, the ego is the subject and the world is the object.However in the Ultimate Reality, there is neither subject or object.
The mind and ego tells us that this world is real.Hence even at death we are not prepared to let go of the ego.The ego has become the soul at death.We console ourselves that we still exists after death and that the ego has gone to heaven.The soul however is not identical to the ego.
What then is the soul?It is our higher Self which is made in the image of God.Hence the higher Self and God are one and the same.It is difficult to comprehend this because of our condtioning through life,.We are told that God is a higher being who dispenses judgenment on whether we go to hell or heaven after death.
God is incomprehensible to the mind because God is not a concept.The mind can only know things that are conceptual.Esoteric matters such as the soul or God being nonconceptual cannot be comprehended by the mind.The mind being a relative reality, cannot conceive what is Ultimate Reality.(5/2/2007)