ses 4 science of the soul final 11
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If I ask you a question…
Who are you?
What would be your answer?
Dr. Harry Monsen, Professor of anatomy at Illinois College of
Medicine says….
“Most of the human body is water. In a 60 pound person, there are about….. 5 pounds of Calcium, 1 ½ pounds of Phosphate, about 9 ounces of Potassium, 6 ounces each of sulfur and sodium, 1 ounce of magnesium, and less than an ounce each of iron, copper and iodine.”
Total worth of a human body Rs.110/-
says Dr.MonsenCALCIUM
IRON
PHOSPHORUS
WATER CONTENT
OTHER SUBSTANCES
Now does that sound like you ? Please ask yourself.
Is this the essential stuff of your identity ?
Are we just bundles of chemicals which have aligned together by
chance and are exhibiting various feelings & emotions…
Sometimes happy
Sometimes shocked
Sometimes loving
Sometimes fighting
What is Life?What is Life?
What is Death?What is Death?
No One Likes Dead Body No One Likes Dead Body - -
We Bury It or Burn We Bury It or Burn itit Where is the Active Force?Where is the Active Force?
Is Life no more than Is Life no more than molecular collision and molecular collision and chemical interaction? chemical interaction?
• Is the love you feel for your parents simply some chemical secretion?
• Mechanistic Science has no correct understanding of emotions that we feel(eg) A scientist cannot describe what a gulabjamun is!
You can simply know it, when you put it on your tongue!
Where is the Source of Where is the Source of Energy of the body?Energy of the body?
•All parts can be All parts can be transplantedtransplanted
•Consciousness cannot be.Consciousness cannot be.
Don’t you feel we are more than the chemicals
which constitute this body?
Then, what is our real
identity?
Lord Krishna taught Arjuna : “You are not the body; you are a
spirit soul.”
What is the difference between a living body and a dead body?
Is Matter Is Matter Conscious?Conscious?
Does it haveDoes it have DESIRES? DESIRES?
Does it possessDoes it possess FEELINGS?FEELINGS?
Does it expressDoes it express WILLINGNESS?WILLINGNESS?
Material View Point
We are bodies made up of matterWe are bodies made up of matterWe are no more than a chemical bundle.We are no more than a chemical bundle.
Everything is finished at the time of death.Everything is finished at the time of death.
We are not the material body of flesh and bones.We are not the material body of flesh and bones.We are spirit soul, encaged in the material body.We are spirit soul, encaged in the material body.
Spiritual View Point
We do not die when material body stops to function.We do not die when material body stops to function.
The Car cannot budge one inch without the driver; The body is termed dead without the presence of driver, the soul.
MOUTH TO SPEAK EYES TO SEE
HEART TO PUMP BLOODHANDS & LEGS TO
MOVE
HORN TO SOUNDHEADLIGHTS TO SEERADIATOR TO SUPPLY WATERFOUR WHEELS TO MOVE
THE UNSEEN DRIVER OF THE BODILY CAR
What is the difference between a living body and a dead body?
What is the difference between a living body and a dead body?
Just as the bird istrapped in the cage,
the soul is trapped in the body made up of
five elements – earth, water, fire,
Air, ether.
Not knowing their real identity as the soul,
the people spend alltheir life in polishing the cage – pampering
the body, withoutfeeding the soul. Can you say how?
Every living body -- be it human, animal, bird, tree, reptile or any other living body –
undergoes six changes – 1. birth 2.growth 3.maintenance 4.production of
by-products 5.dwindling 6.death.
What is the difference between a living body and a dead body?
GOD’S ENERGIES
Inferior Material Energy
Superior Spiritual Energy
Gross Elements
1. Earth 2. Water 3. Fire 4. Air 5. Ether
Subtle Elements
1. Mind 2. Intelligence 3. False Ego
Spiritual Body (Soul)
1. SAT (eternal)2. CIT (full of knowledge)3. ANANDA (full of bliss)
The soul is covered by gross and subtle coverings
Soul :
Gross body : Gross body : Earth, Earth, Water, Water, Fire, Fire, Air Air EtherEther
Subtle body :Subtle body : MindMind IntelligenceIntelligence False EgoFalse Ego
EternityEternityKnowledgeKnowledgeBlissBliss
Lord Sri Krishna instructs …
“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
Even in the current life ‘you’, the soul is reincarnating from childhood body to boyhood to youth to old age.
“As a person puts on new dresses, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies,
giving up the old and useless ones.” [BG 2.22]
“As a person puts on new dresses, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies,
giving up the old and useless ones.” [BG 2.22]
What happens to us at Death?The soul leaves the gross body behind and is taken to another womb based on the quality of desires stored in his subtle body at the time of death.
Soul changing bodies from one specie to another
Proof for the Soul’s Existence
When a person dies, we say, “He has passed away.”
Who has passed away? The body is still there.
Actually, THE SOUL HAS PASSED AWAY.
A machine can say,“I see red light” but does the EXPERIENCE of seeing red light accompany this mechanical response?
Consciousness means to be aware,thinking, feeling, willing and
intentionality.
Proof for the Soul’s Existence - CONSCIOUSNESS
Is Man not just a Powerful Computer or Robot?
Drama observed by a panel of
Judges
Drama recorded by Video Cameras
Eyes of JudgesLens in the Camera“Experience”
Elation, sorrow, anger, etc.
“Conscious”
“Able to judge”
No “Experience”
No “Emotions”
No “Consciousness”
No “Judging”
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE) &
•11% to 14% of the average American population who are mentally and physically healthy have had OBE -- Medical Journal of Current Problems
in Pediatrics
• Enough research in NDE with impeccable scientific credentials
(Dr. Michael Sabom, a cardiologist & Professor at Emory University Medical
School)
•Research on “Eternal Soul” by 30 yrs surgeon Dr.Bigelow
OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE (OBE)
Proof for the Soul’s Existence – NDE & OBE studies
PAST LIFE MEMORIES
Ian Stevenson,
Carlson Professor
of Psychiatry at the
University of
Virginia has
extensively
investigated over
2000 cases of
spontaneous
reincarnation
memories.
Proof for the Soul’s Existence – REINCARNATION Research
KNOWLEDGE OF THE SOUL
INDESTRUCTIBLE
INDIVIDUAL
HAS FORM & PERSONALITY
INCONCEIVABLE
ETERNAL, FULL OF KNOWLEDGE, FULL OF BLISS
SITUATED IN THE REGION OF THE HEART CHANGES
BODIES
SIZE OF THE SOUL:ONE TEN-THOUSANDTH OF
THE TIP OF A HAIR
SOUL HAS FORM; SOUL GIVES FORM TO
MATTERTHE SOUL IS NOT “SOME FORMLESS LIGHT”.
THE SOUL IS A PERSONALITY WITH BEAUTIFUL FORM AND QUALITIES.
MATTERSOUL + MATTERMATTER
SOUL CHANGES BODIESThe soul leaves one body and occupies another body after death.
This is known as “Law of Transmigration”.
First the soul occupies a human body and depending on his karma, he may occupy a donkey’s body, cat’s body,
dog’s body, cow’s body etc.
Prahalad Maharaj instructs
Prahalad Maharaj instructs
kaumära äcaret präjïodharmän bhägavatän iha
durlabhaà mänuñaà janmatad apy adhruvam arthadam
One who is sufficiently intelligent should use the human form of body from the very beginning of his life
to practice the activities of devotional service.
AM I GOD?
God is supremely independent and is never controlled.
Can anyone say, “I am not controlled, I am independent, I am God?”
WE ARE TINY CONTROLLERS; GOD IS SUPREME CONTROLLER
Living entities can control material energy to some extent.
Europeans developed the vacant land of America
into a country with great industries and roads.
Big jet planes cannot run without a pilot.
WE ARE TINY; GOD IS INFINITE
We are jivatma; God is paramatma.
Thus, jivatma either in a conditioned state or in the liberated state is always
subordinate to God.
Man can put a satellite into orbit;
God can float millions of planets in
orbit.
Man can create a 100-storied
building;
God can create millions of universes.
I am a tiny jeeva, not the ultimate GodBut a tiny part and parcel, servant of the Lord
Leaving Lord’s company, forced to be born in painIn the world filled with agony, again and again
A Poem : We are not Gods, but we are God’s
Krishna is my Lord, the source of all existenceHis form is imperishable, full of six opulences
He pays a visit to this world, out of His own sweet willTo please and protect His devotees, and punish the evil
I am only Brahman, But Krishna is Para BrahmanMy power is limited, His potencies are unlimited
I can make a swimming pool, God creates OceansI can fly a rocket, but Lord floats huge planets
I can invent a dome light, but God creates moon lightWe make ordinary dolls, but the Lord made us all
Lord is the actual doer, I am just an imitatorLord is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
Who deserves everyone’s love and humble serviceI am a tiny jeeva cast in oceanic material world
Lord is the greatest of all, Let us accept this fact at heartWe’re His tiny servants, Let’s realize and serve Him with joy.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare.
SUMMARY OF ‘SCIENCE OF 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 presence of the soul can be scientifically proved by common sense, intuitive
understanding, presence of consciousness, NDE, past life memories.
• The gross body is made up of earth, water, fire, air and ether.
• The subtle body is made up of mind, intelligence and ego.
• A computer/robot can never become like a human being with any amount of advancement because it is a machine devoid of consciousness (soul).
• The soul is indestructible, individual, eternal, inconceivable.
• The soul is situated in the region of the heart.
•The soul is not formless. The soul has a form.
•The soul leaves one body and goes to another at death.
• The soul is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
• The size of the soul is one ten-thousandth of the tip of a hair.
….wishes you a happy life to attain perfect knowledge of
soul and its relationship with God through the sacred words
of the Vedas to gain complete freedom from all suffering.
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