THE END OF OUR LIFE
(NO PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY)
DEATH. MAN'S MOST MYSTERIOUS, RESENTLESS, AND INEVITABLE ADVERSARY. DOES DEATH MEAN THE END OF LIFE, OR DOES IS MERELY OPEN THE DOOR TO ANOTHER LIFE, ANOTHER DIMENTION, OR ANOTHER WORLD?
IF MAN'S CONSCIOUSNESS SURVIVES THE DEATH EXPERIENCE, THEN WHAT DETERMINES ITS TRANSITION TO NEW REALITIES?
IN ORDER TO GAIN CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE MYSTERIES, MAN HAS TRADITIONALLY TURNED TO ENLIGHTENED PHILOSOPHERS, ACCEPTION THEIR TEACHINGS AS REPRESENTATIVE OF A HIGHER TRUTH.
SOME CRITICIZE THIS METHOD OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE FROM A HIGHER AUTHORITY, NO MATTER HOW CAREFULLY THE SEEKER MAY ANALYZE IT. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER E.F. SCHUMACHER, AUTHOR OF SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, NOTES THAT IN OUR MODERN SOCIETY, WHEN PEOPLE ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH NATURE AND TRADITIONAL WISDOM, THEY, 'CONSIDER IT FASHIONABE TO RIDICLE... AND ONLY BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY SEE AND TOUCH AND MEASURE". OR, AS THE SAYING GOES, SEEING IS BELIEVING."
NO SCIENTIST HAS SUCCESSFULLY EXPLAINED THROUGH LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR ITS DESTINATION AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MATERIAL BODY. RESEARCH IN THIS FIELD HAS PRODUCED MANY DIVERGENT THEORIES, BUT THEIR LIMITATIONS MUST BE RECOGNIZED.
THE SYSTEMATIC PRINCIPLES OF REINCARNATION, ON THE OTHER HAND, COMPREHENSIVELY EXPLAIN THE SUBTLE LAWS GOVERNING OUR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE LIVES.
WE CAN ADMITTEDLY FIND NOTHING IS PHYSICS OR CHEMISTRY THAT HAS EVEN A REMOTE BEARING ON CONSCIOUSNESS. YET ALL OF US KNOW THERE IS SUCH A THING AS CONSCIOUSNESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE WE HAVE IT OURSELVES, HENCE CONSCIOUSNESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE WE HAVE IT OURSELVES, HENCE CONSCIOUSNESS MUST BE PART OF NATURE, OR , MORE GENERALLY OF REALITY, WHICH MEANS THAT QUITE APART FROM THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, AS LAID DOWN IN QUANTUM THEORY, WE MUST ALSO CONSIDER LAWS OF QUITE A DIFFERENT KIND". SUCH LAWS MIGHT WELL INCLUDE THE LAWS OF REINCARNATION, WHICH GOVERN THE PASSAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM ONE PHYSICAL BODY INTO ANOTHER.
TO BEGIN UNDERSTANDING THESE LAWS, WE MAY NOTE THAT REINCARNATION IS NOT AN ALIEN, ANTIPODAL EVENT, BUT ONE THAT OCCURS WITH REGULARITY IN OUR BODIES DURING THIS VERY LIFETIME. IN THE HUMAN BRAIN, PROFESSOR JOHN PFEIFFER NOTES , YOUR BODY DOES NOT CONTAIN A SINGLE ONE OF THE MOLECULES THAT IT CONTAINED SEVEN YEARS AGO. EVERY SEVEN YEARS ONE'S OLD BODY IS COMPLETELY REJUVENATED. THE SELF, HOWEVER, OUR REAL IDENTITY, REMAINS UNCHANGED. OUR BODIES GROW FROM INFANCY, TO YOUTH, TO MIDDLE AGE, AND THEN TO OLD AGE, YET THE PERSON WITHIN THE BODY, THE "I " ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME.
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, EVER-EXISTING AND PRIMEVAL.
HE IS NOT SLAIN WHEN THE BODY IS SLAIN.
---- BHAGAVAD-GITA
DOES LIFE BEGIN WITH BIRTH AND END WITH DEATH? HAVE WE LIVED BEFORE? SUCH QUESTIONS ARE NORMALLY IDENTIFIED WITH RELIGIONS OF THE EAST, WHERE THE LIFE OF MAN IS KNOWN TO ENDURE NOT ONLY FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE, BUT THROUGH MILLIONS OF AGES, AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE IDEA OF REBIRTH IS NEARLY UNIVERSAL. AS ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, THE GREAT NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN PHILOSOPHER, ONCE OBSERVED, "WERE AN ASIATIC TO ASK ME FOR A DEFINITION OF EUROPE, I SHOULD BE FORCED TO ANSWER HIM, IT IS THAT PART OF THE WORLD WHICH IS HAUNTED BY THE INCREDIBLE DELUSION THAT MAN WAS CREATED OUT OF NOTHING, AND THAT HIS PRESENT BIRTH IS HIS FIRST ENTRANCE INTO LIFE".
