Sunday, December 27, 2009

In Search of Rebirth: Gita & God 26

The best way to search for Rebirth is to ask who would be re-born. Atman or Self being indistinguishable part of the never-born, never-dead Paramtman or God will reamian there always and can go through rebirth. The Self or Atman or Paramtman being the only source of everyting is inhererent in everything and everything including the dead body is contained in the Self or Atman. So, the body when dead is still in Atman even as it transforms into ashes or into other elements in the grave. Though the body may not have the gunas / properties to rea,lise the Self or Atman. The body transforms after death and cannot have rebirth the way I wish to see a rebirth.
It is in a live body that the Self may be realized. But for that the mind must become still, the mind and the intellect must meditate on the Self and the ego must go. Then the Self appears and a person may merge with the Self or Atman or God. But who is this person who merges with Atman. He is not the body. He is not the ego or the intellect. He is not the mind because mind becomes still when the Self is realized. Then who is this person who merges with Self and detaches from all gunas, intellect and ego? Yes, I am That (Self). But who is that I that merges in That Self? Is it that the ego unable to use the intellect and mind and therefore the senses becomes unable to give expression to the Gunas? And, therefore ego is that which ultimately dies to merge in the Self? Before that happens, Ego is what I am ! Or, there is a third person who is the I. This I is influenced / captured by guna-combination-personality-illusion (GCPI) and when I overcome the GCPI through Yoga that I realize the Self?
It does not matter however who I am so long as I do not realise the Self or Atman.
But I or the Ego or the GCPI are something that this Universe contains and hence must exist in Atman or God. Therefore , the Self or Atman or God must exist in I and the Ego or the intellect or the mind or the GCPI. But these being only the derivative of God or Atman or the Original source must be susciptble to change just as the body changes or transforms. We know how the body transforms after death. But what happens to I or Ego or Mind or Intellect after body's death? Do they also die and transform or they do not die and yet transform? If they transform, they must be always there and cannot ever die or be born again.

If therefore nothing we can identify other than the Self/ Atman/ God / the Orginal indestructible, immutable source of everything, then everything has to be under transformation. If they transform, they are never really dead - only a particular form may disappear and yield place to another form. That exactly what even the body does while it has life and when it does not have life. If we say the body is dead because there is no life inside it, then every other thing which does not have life in it must be dead.
When does the ego lose the life or does it have a life at all or is it always alive. The Gita and the Upanishads do not consider these questions are relevant. Because, these are part of Apara Vidya and not Para Vidya . Para Vidya is the knowledge by which you know the essence of all other knowledge of science and arts. The question that Para Vidya seeks to answer is where does everything come from? The answer is that it comes from Atman or Paramtman or the Self, the God Almighty. How do we prove or know that. The method to know is Yoga and the ultimate state of Yoga is when the mind has become still, the ego is lost, all desires have gone. It is then when the knower knows the answer by merging with that what is to be known, the original source. The knower, the known and the knowledge bcome the same. The knower has lost any other identity at that stage; he sees every things in himself and him in everything else. This is a rare of state to happen within a ive human body and rare is a human body that experiences this state. It is the state of bliss that no one has described anywhere for another person to understand or feel. So, the probability of such a state arising in any human body like that of mine is in the infinitsimal distance of zero, even if the method of Yoga is taken recourse to.
Whether there is rebirth of anything or not is immaterial to this scientific theory of God.

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