You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel. Though bodies are continually born, the ātmā is not born repeatedly. You will not be born as your sons and grandsons. Śruti says aṅgād aṅgāt sambhavasi hṛdayāt abhijāyase ātmā vai putranāmāsi saṁjīva śaradah śatam: you are born from the limbs, you are born from the heart; you are born as your son’s name-- live for a hundred years. Like a sprout from a seed, a body takes the form of a child. From the spout comes another seed, which produces a grandson. But you are not like this, since the ātmā is different from the material covering, just as a flame is different from the wood it burns. A body is born from another body, but the ātmā is not like this.