Shri Nathji was once heard giving the following example to Maharaja Sarila and his servant, Qaddar, which touched the master and servant both, so that they would ever afterwards recount it:
There is air inside a football. When the air leaks out, it is as if the football has ‘died’. But the air within mingles with the atmosphere outside and becomes one with it. Similarly, when the body of a man dies, the soul within it leaves the body and mingles with the Universal Soul!