A : You escape the incapacitation of desires. You escape the ruination of being ruled by your desires. When you know that your life will never end, you know that anything you wish to experience you have an eternity to create—or to recreate if you’ve had it once and wish to experience it again.
If, on the other hand, you imagine that you have a limited time in which to experience what you desire to experience, you will give up your peace to acquire it, or to hold onto it if and when you do acquire it.
A : It is an eternal reality. Life is an eternal experience for all sentient beings, but few sentient beings who think of themselves and express themselves primarily as a physical body experience their eternality as a felt reality. They experience their physicality as their felt reality, and they imagine that when their physicality is over, their existence has come to an end.
At best, they hold the idea of eternal life as a concept, a theory, a doctrine or belief; as something that “might be,” but about which they are not sure.
Q : Sure they are, because it’s easy for them! They are experiencing it, not just thinking about it or praying about it or hoping about it. And they have been experiencing it since . . . well, since forever.