Teaching Children About Death

There is something in you that has witnessed your life since you were born.

This something never changes, is never born, and never dies.

It’s a light that illuminates the world and your every thought.

It is the same light that gives life to this body and every body.

When you die you lose the person, but not the light.

That light, which has shined forever, even before you were born, is pure, infinite and eternal.

If you’re inclined to think so, you may believe that you will be born in another body in order to experience this world once again.

Or if it helps, you can think of dying like falling asleep.

When you’re in a deep sleep the world and the person you believe you are disappear,

But the real you is still there, happy and at peace just being

—just being the light. 

From "The Broken Tusk - Seeing Through the Lens of Vedanta"