Reincarnation Theory Of Cause & Effect
Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains. That death is the end of personality. That there is no trace of the individual thereafter. Others, however, do not consider death as finality. They believe in the continuity of life. That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one's entire life. Yet others posit the existence of imaginary realms of heaven and hell where they believe humans go after their death. These beliefs are not based on rational analysis and derivation. Instead, you must collect relevant data, study them carefully and draw intelligent conclusions from them. Only then would you get a clearer idea of the phenomenon of birth and death. What happens when a person dies? His gross body perishes in that form. The material of the body merges with earth. Science declares that something cannot pass into nothing. The law of indestructibility of matter. the law of conservation of energy states it. The same law should be applied to the subtle body as well. The subtle body of the person comprises his thought, feeling and desire. The resultant of his mental and intellectual forces. His inner energy comprises subtle matter. Applying the same law to the subtle body you would realise that its energy cannot vanish into nothing at the time of death. In this world innumerable deaths and births occur everyday. The mental ener- gies of all those persons cannot disappear or appear all of a sudden. That would be against the laws of science. Life is a series of experiences. The progression of life is determined by desires that drive you from one ex- perience to another. In philosophic terms an experience is dead and another born. every moment. Your desires drive you through a continuous procession of birth and death. This will continue in perpetuity until the desires are eradicated from your personality. Desires are the cause and the experiences of life are the effect. At the moment of death a person is left with innumerable unfulfilled desires. He may vanish from your sight but that does not mean that his desires are extinct. Unfulfilled desires have to be eradicated to pre- vent further manifestation. The cause has to be removed to erase the effect. When the desires are completely exhausted the cycle of birth and death ends. That is the state of self-realisation or God-realisation. Numerous desires remain unfulfilled when people die. It would be irrational to presume that all of them disappear into nothing. Now, look at the world from another angle. Different types of people are born with dis- tinct ' tendencies, inclinations, desires. Every human being enters the world with his pattern of thought, feel- ing, desire. And people are born with a va. riety of desires. These variegated desires could not have emerged from nowhere. To accept that they have come out of nothing would again be as irrational as to presume that they disappear sud denly. Such pre sumptions would violate the code of science. After a thorough analysis, great thinkers connected the unaccounted gain of desires of the born to the unac counted loss of desires of the dead. In an audit of the account of life, they applied the law of causation which them to the desires of the born as the effect. This observation is in accordance with the law of indestructibility of matter, of causation, of karma. This correlation of cause and effect projects the theory of reincarnation, a scientific deduction from the available data that cannot be proved experimentally. Hence, it is presented as a theory.
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Reincarnation Theory Of Cause & Effect
Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains. That death is the end of personality. That there is no trace of the individual thereafter. Others, however, do not consider death as finality. They believe in the continuity of life. That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one's entire life. Yet others posit the existence of imaginary realms of heaven and hell where they believe humans go after their death. These beliefs are not based on rational analysis and derivation. Instead, you must collect relevant data, study them carefully and draw intelligent conclusions from them. Only then would you get a clearer idea of the phenomenon of birth and death. What happens when a person dies? His gross body perishes in that form. The material of the body merges with earth. Science declares that something cannot pass into nothing. The law of indestructibility of matter. the law of conservation of energy states it. The same law should be applied to the subtle body as well. The subtle body of the person comprises his thought, feeling and desire. The resultant of his mental and intellectual forces. His inner energy comprises subtle matter. Applying the same law to the subtle body you would realise that its energy cannot vanish into nothing at the time of death. In this world innumerable deaths and births occur everyday. The mental ener- gies of all those persons cannot disappear or appear all of a sudden. That would be against the laws of science. Life is a series of experiences. The progression of life is determined by desires that drive you from one ex- perience to another. In philosophic terms an experience is dead and another born. every moment. Your desires drive you through a continuous procession of birth and death. This will continue in perpetuity until the desires are eradicated from your personality. Desires are the cause and the experiences of life are the effect. At the moment of death a person is left with innumerable unfulfilled desires. He may vanish from your sight but that does not mean that his desires are extinct. Unfulfilled desires have to be eradicated to pre- vent further manifestation. The cause has to be removed to erase the effect. When the desires are completely exhausted the cycle of birth and death ends. That is the state of self-realisation or God-realisation. Numerous desires remain unfulfilled when people die. It would be irrational to presume that all of them disappear into nothing. Now, look at the world from another angle. Different types of people are born with dis- tinct ' tendencies, inclinations, desires. Every human being enters the world with his pattern of thought, feel- ing, desire. And people are born with a va. riety of desires. These variegated desires could not have emerged from nowhere. To accept that they have come out of nothing would again be as irrational as to presume that they disappear sud denly. Such pre sumptions would violate the code of science. After a thorough analysis, great thinkers connected the unaccounted gain of desires of the born to the unac counted loss of desires of the dead. In an audit of the account of life, they applied the law of causation which them to the desires of the born as the effect. This observation is in accordance with the law of indestructibility of matter, of causation, of karma. This correlation of cause and effect projects the theory of reincarnation, a scientific deduction from the available data that cannot be proved experimentally. Hence, it is presented as a theory.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Parthasarathy and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Parthasarathy and Speaking Tree, Times of India