How do we know there is life after death?
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How can we know there is life before death?
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how do you know there is light after death apart from what is mentioned in hindi it is hard to believe if we accept the materialistic worldview there is no way to know that there is life before death also what i mean what i mean is that if you just accept a rigidly materialistic worldview then you and i don’t exist because ultimately you and i are just matter matter is just atoms and molecules atoms and molecules don’t have emotions atoms and molecules don’t have any ambitions atoms and molecules don’t have any desires they just exist so with materialism there is no life before death also there is just no meaning to life at all now there are there are people who say life chemicals come alive somehow they have come alive and i live right now and i will die and everything will be finished the problem with this idea is we don’t think of ourselves just as chemicals our body is primarily made of carbon do you think i am a carbony substance or our body is primarily fluid, water so do you think i am watery no we have understanding of self that goes beyond our body so there is no meaning to life if we were nothing more than matter because if i think that i am just chemicals what is the point of living at all so there is no life after death first of all from a if i again start with a simple point which is clear this is made of the same substance that my hand is made of my body is made of your body yet this is not conscious i am conscious what is the difference between it and me what is the difference between a mic what is the difference between a chair you sit on and me in terms of physical composition both are essentially in the same universe and yet suppose after this program there is some sweet the sweet is sweet but the sweet doesn’t know it is sweet when the sweet comes on your tongue your tongue is made essentially in the same chemical as the sweet is made of but using that tongue you know that it is sweet so how does matter which has no capacity to experience anything suddenly the same matter is there in the sweet in terms of fundamental components the same matter is there in the sweet the same matter is there in the tongue how does the matter in your tongue suddenly develop the capacity to experience matter how does the tongue develop the capacity to experience sweet sweet doesn’t experience anything but when it comes to the tongue you experience it. So the source of experience, the source of consciousness, the source of life is non-material. Matter doesn’t experience consciousness.
It is a separate source of consciousness that is present there, that is beyond. And this Atma is indestructible, it goes on to the next body. There are scientists who have done experiments trying to probe different parts of the brain to see where is the person, where is the person, where is the center of consciousness.
Now we all feel that I am one person. In our brain there may be millions of neurons in many cells. Now we don’t feel I am million persons.
I am one person. Everything from my brain, all the signals that you are doing something, you are seeing something, you are touching something, all these signals are coming to one person only. But if you look at the brain, there is no one place in the brain where all the signals come on.
So where does your sense of individual unity, that I am one person, how does that come about? That comes about because there is one source of consciousness separate for you. So many Nobel Laureate neurosurgeons and neuroscientists, Wilder Benfrey, John Eccles, Charles Sherrington, these people studied throughout their life, 40-50 years, trying to find out where is the breaker is consciousness. And at the end they said, actually consciousness is extra cerebral.
It exists beyond the brain. It exists somewhere in the body. So one Nobel Laureate neuroscientist said that the brain is like a computer, but the programmer is beyond.
So anyway, all that I talked about today was not based on beliefs in the life of today. All I talked about is that even in this life, the quality of our life will improve if we bring the spiritual dimension forward. So I have a website, The Spiritual Scientist, where I elaborately given scientific proofs and case studies of people who have remembered their past lives.
And those past life memories are strong pointers to the existence of life after death. But I won’t go into that right now. Suffice it to say, with respect to this topic, without, if you don’t bring the spiritual dimension to life, even life before death becomes meaningless.
As one philosopher said, he said that, if there is no spiritual dimension to my life, then what am I? Am I anything more than just electrons moving around aimlessly and endlessly? Round and round and round and round and round. There is no ultimate meaning left in life.