Abdu'l-Baha - Bahai World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha section, p. 326

(read by Mlingane Poswayo at the cremation on 4th August 2023)

To consider that after the death of the

body the spirit perishes, is like

imagining that a bird in a cage will

be destroyed if the cage is broken,

though the bird has nothing to fear

from the destruction of the cage. Our

body is like the cage, and the spirit is

like the bird... if the cage becomes

broken, the bird will continue and

exist: its feelings will be even more

powerful, its perceptions greater, and

its happiness increased.