so what if its almost 10:30 pm, it was a new day that brings a new me. Every day i explore something new (k.. i live alone), today i thought about what happens (to life) after death. Tricky question, i wonder why i do this to myself.. remember that string theory blog, i still haven’t completed it, sry about that, and to continue with my thought on this.. I try to find answer to all mysteries of life though science, that doest mean that i don’t believe in God, but i try not to have a single answer to every tricky question. Being a Hindu and from a Brahmin family i know according to Veda the soul recycles, its goes through millions and billions of cycles, living as each and every form of life on this planet, before it gets life as a human, and there's a concept of attaining "Moksha", which is a way to free our soul from this endless cycle of life and death by doing good deeds in our life as human. Well thats the religious aspect. I wonder how would science explain this, to be frank am not even sure how science explains life (and am not talking about theory of evolution, trust me its different), the truth is, am alive and thinking and writing and someone reads this and continue on thought process, how does this all happens? We eat, drink and breath, that’s food, water and air and in return we do gazillion things in our life, how does this all happen, I wonder how can body by itself do that and why every religion talks about soul.So let me assume there’s a soul, which governs our body, then how would soul look like, does it have a color, height, weight, looks? And if not then why is body so different from soul, k, probably for us to have distinct appearance, but doesn’t that mean that our soul is different too.. if body does the work and soul governs it, does that mean thoughts and decisions actually come from soul rather than from body and mind.
So the real question, who actually dies? Is it the soul or the body? Most of the people (irrespective of which religion they belong to) would say, body dies and soul lives forever. I doubt, when a person dies, the body still stays and it doesn’t move cause something is missing from it, what if that’s cause the soul is dead. Someone might argue, body dies cause heart aint running, brain aint working etc.. I tell u what, say in a decade or 2 if we develop machines to support body without heart and brain, would then body live forever? Am pretty sure that it wont.
Now the question is if I assume soul dies and body stays then why does heart and brain don’t work and why does body rot. So like I said, soul governs the body, and since soul is dead, there’s noone to command the heart to pump and mind to think and since that don’t happen the blood doesn’t flow and the body lies motionless in the state of numbness. Imagine a robot with dead battery, what would it do? Well that’s what our body does, NOTHING.
So what does that conclude?, does it mean soul dies and body stays or does body dies and soul leaves the body, to do what and go where? Imagine more than 6.5 billion people on this planet at any given time and few dying every minute and a lot more being born, so where does these new souls come from?
Doesn’t it reflect that with every living body a soul is born and at the end of the life, soul dies, leaving the body behind to be cremated.
