Yes, even the present is mere imagination, for the sense of time is purely mental. Space is similarly mental. Therefore birth and rebirth, which take place in time and space, cannot be other than imagination. This is the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. The stone which is projected upwards remains in constant motion till it returns to its source, the earth, and rests.
Headache continues to give trouble, till the pre-headache state is regained.
Although indestructible by nature, by false identification with its destructible instrument, the body consciousness imbibes a false apprehension of its destructibility. Because of that false identification it tries to perpetuate the body, and that results in a succession of rebirths. But however long these bodies may last, they eventually come to an end and yield to the Self, which alone eternally exists. In fact it is always without it. A doubt has just now arisen in a friend of mine's mind.