Ramprasad : Tell me, brother, what happens after death

For some detail about the 18th c. Hindu mystic and poet Ramprasad Sen, see this post.

Tell me, brother, what happens after death?
The whole world is arguing about it —
Some say you become a ghost,
Others that you go to heaven,
And some that you get close to God,
And the Vedas insist you’re a bit of sky
Reflected in a jar fated to shatter.

When you look for sin and virtue in nothing,
You end up with nothing.
The elements live in the body together
But go their own ways at death.

Prasad says: you end, brother,
Where you began, a reflection
Rising in water, mixing with water,
Finally one with water.

Translation Leonard Nathan & Clinton Seely

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