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This slideshow is based on the book DISCOVER YOURSELF by VOICE Director Radheshyam das, IIT, Powai.

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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.

THANK YOU

VERY MUCH

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