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THE PARALLEL OF LEAVING "THE WHATSAPP WORLD"

A few weeks ago, I exited from the WhatsApp platform after using it for years. Here are few parallels I drew between the experience of leaving "the WhatsApp world" and the experience one has of leaving this world.

I WILL ALWAYS EXIST
After leaving the WhatsApp world, I still exist similarly after leaving this world, one will still exist because as spirit soul, we are all eternal. Lord Krishna explains in Bhagvat-gita 2.12

na tv evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ
na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ
na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ
sarve vayam ataḥ param

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."


"N" NUMBER OF WORLDS
The WhatsApp world is not the all in all similarly, this life of ours is not the all in all. Exiting from WhatsApp is just texting from one platform. There are so many other platforms to operate from. There are "n" number of little worlds that exist parallely in this universe. 

CONTINUE ON WITHOUT ME
"The WhatsApp world" and the WhatsApp groups I was part of continue unaffected without me similarly, this world and it's activities will continue even after one exists from this world. Therefore, there is nothing to be proud of.

COMMUNICATION BLOCKED
Even though I have left WhatsApp, I can still see what's happening in my previous WhatsApp groups once a while by peeking through the mobile of my friend but I can't communicate with anyone similarly, after leaving one's body one may be able to see what's happening in their previous world through some channel but one will not be able to communicate with the members of their previous world. 

AT ANY TIME...
I had a choice to quit using WhatsApp whenever I wanted but no one has choice as to when they will have to quit this body. The only thing is certain is that one will have to quit the body at sometime. Life is this meant to prepare for that inevitable, sudden moment. As Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Srimad Bhagvatam 3.11.33 - "It is necessary that every human being be responsible in preparing himself for the next life, even if he has a duration of life like that of Brahmā."
 
- Achyut Gopal Das

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