REINCARNATION AND SOUL-A FACT OR FICTION
EXERCISE • AM I FINGER? • AM I HAND? • AM I NOSE? • I AM THE OWNER OF THESE SENSES. • I AM OWNER OF THE CAR • SO I AM DIFFERENT---• WHAT IS MY IDENTITY ??????????
How is man different from a powerful robot
?
Drama observed by a panel of Judges
Eyes of Judges
“Able “Experience” “Conscious” “Emotions” to judge”
Drama recorded by Video Cameras
Lens in the Camera
No No No No “Consciousness” “Experience” “Emotions” “Judging”
Consciousn essA machine can say, “I see red light”. But does the EXPERIENCE of seeing red light accompany this mechanical response ?
Proof of presence of soul
CONSCIOUSNESS
Proof for the Soul’s Existence
When a man dies we say Who has passed away? “He passed away.” Thehas body is still there.
Dr. Michael Sabom
Dr. Raymond A. Moody
PAST LIFE MEMORIES Ian Stevenson, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia has extensively investigated over 3000 cases of spontaneous reincarnation memories.
Dr. Ian Stevenson Ian Stevenson, eighty year old clinical psychiatrist, Director of the Department of personality studies University of Virginia,
Dr. Stevenson chronicled a total of more than three thousand reports. Most of them were researched by him personally, Here are some samples.
Some famous personalities say about reincarnation
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s famous epitaph : “The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover of an old book, it’s contents torn out and stripped of it’s letterings and gilding) lies here, food for worms: but the work shall not be lost. It will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition… revised and corrected by the Author.”
David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister The conventional heaven with it’s angels perpetually singing, etc., nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.”
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer: “I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty six, it was as if I had found a universal plan.”
Plato
Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy
Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Rudyard Kipling
Statistics: George Gallup Junior, Princeton University, 1981: •A
national survey indicated that 23% of Americans believe in reincarnation. •The National Opinion Research Center in Chicago found that 74% of all Americans believe in an after life, surprisingly, 40% of those claiming to be Christians accept the concept of reincarnation. •Taking Americans as a whole, regardless of religious back ground, a clear majority, more than 50%, believe in reincarnation..
In the early years th of 20 century, Dr.Harry Mosen, Professor of anatomy at Illinois collge of medicine analyzed the constituents of the
He said that the human body was made of the following constituents: • Iron to make a 6 small nails. • Carbon to make 900 pencils. • Sugar to sweeten 10 cups of coffee. • Potassium to fire a toy cannon.
He said that the human body was made of the following constituents: • Lime & fat to make 7 bars of soap. • Phosphorus to make 20 matchboxes. • Water to fill 10 gallon water tank. • A little sulphur, a little calcium and other trace elements.
Total worth of chemicals CALCIUM IRON PHOSPHORUS WATER CONTENT OTHER SUBSTANCES
Total worth of chemicals
$ 20 Are you a bag of $20 worth chemicals ?
Which is more valuable ?
A $55,000 worth BMW or a $20 worth
What BHAGAVAD-GITA speaks about the SOUL ?
Soul Person Gross Body
Subtle Body
Earth Water Fire Air Ether
Mind Intelligence False Ego
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones. -Bhagavad Gita 2.22
avinäçi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaà tatam vinäçam avyayasyäsya na kaçcit kartum arhati Bhagavad - gétä 2.17
“That
which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.” Bhagavad - gétä 2.17
dehino ’smin yathä dehe kaumäraà yauvanaà jarä tathä dehäntarapräptir dhéras tatra na Bhagavad - gétä 2.13 muhyati
“As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death.” Bhagavad - gétä 2.13
väsäàsi jérëäni yathä vihäya naväni gåhëäti naro ’paräëi tathä çaréräëi vihäya jérëäny anyäni saàyäti naväni dehé Bhagavad - gétä 2.22
“As
a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.” Bhagavad - gétä 2.22
na jäyate mriyate vä kadäcin näyaà bhütvä bhavitä vä na bhüyaù ajo nityaù çäçvato ’yaà puräëo na hanyate hanyamäne çarére Bhagavad - gétä 2.20
“For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, everexisting and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.” Bhagavad - gétä 2.20
“This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same.” Bhagavad - gétä 2.24
Characteristics of Soul
SOUL INDESTRUCTIBLE ETERNAL, FULL OF KNOWLEDGE, FULL OF BLISS SITUATED IN THE REGION OF THE HEART INCONCEIVABLE
INDIVIDUAL HAS FORM & PERSONALITY CHANGES BODIES
SIZE OF THE SOUL:ONE TEN-THOUSANDTH OF THE TIP OF A HAIR
sac-cidänanda SAT = eternality CIT = full of knowledge
Presently ….
Transmigrating in 8,400,000 species which are ASAT: temporary ACIT: in ignorance NIRANANDA: full of miseries
MODERN CIVILIZATION
Cage Polishing Civilization
What is the use of carefully polishing the cage if one ignores the needs of the parrot inside? Similarly, people are making all arrangements for bodily comforts but spiritually, everyone is suffering. Hence, everyone is suffering.
What about me?
CAR CANNOT BUDGE ONE INCH WITHOUT THE DRIVER; THE BODY CANNOT DO ANY FUNCTION WITHOUT THE DRIVER i.e. SOUL
We are not these bodies; we are spirit souls Just as a car cannot move without a driver, the body cannot function without the soul. The gross body is made up of earth, water, fire, air and ether.
There is compelling evidence for presence of the soulcommon sense, intuitive understanding, presence of consciousness, NDE, past life memories.
The subtle body is made up of mind, intelligence and ego.
A computer/robot can never The soul has a form and become like a human being personality and changes bodies because it is a machine devoid of consciousness (soul) The soul is indestructible, individual, eternal, inconceivable
The soul is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss
The soul is situated in the region of the heart
The size of the soul is one ten-thousandth of the tip of a hair
Only in human form One can realize this science of Self realization.
In human form of life we have got developed intelligence to discriminate and lead responsible lives.
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