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    Re: Life after death?

    Namaste maxpsycho and Mana

    Quote Originally Posted by maxpsycho
    If anyone is postulating that they know or believe that there is another kind of "life" after "death", which can't really be life as we know it since it's just been ended, then they need to provide some evidence of it, or else it's meaningless and irrelevant babble.

    Of course some schools of hinduism do talk about the idea of reincarnation and the rest of it - but again, it boils down to which myth you believe as opposed to which idea is supported by evidence.
    Maybe you did not notice but this is a forum called HDF or "Hindu Dharma Forums". This is a gathering of people who are interested in discussing and appreciating (respecting) Hindu Dharma. If you think that Hindu Dharma is "meaningless and irrelevant babble" and "myth you believe" it would be a good idea to stay away from this HDF.

    Quote Originally Posted by maxpsycho
    If the word "life" is to mean anything, then the word "death" denotes the end of that life. Similarly just because you ask "who made us?" doesn't mean that everyone will miss the assumptions that you've made, i.e. 1) that we're made, and 2) that SOMEONE made us. The question isn't valid and neither is the phrase life after death.
    How do you know that? Looks like you're pretty sure about that. How do you know that nobody made us? How do you know that life ends with physical death?

    Quote Originally Posted by maxpsycho
    little kids remembering details about a past life they never had (a trick that is easy to perform with the use of a couple of bullying parents, a Bata chappal, and a script)
    How do you know that the experience of remembering past lives is not genuine? Just because you have not had such an experience does not mean that no one had it.

    Quote Originally Posted by maxpsycho
    Death as we know it, i.e. brain death, ergo death of the human being, is the end of life. If what you have now is life, and I would posit that it is, then at the time that you breathe your last breath, and your heart stops and the brain no longer receives oxygen and dies, then at that point this life is over.
    "Death as we know it", yes it's what you know about it.
    "brain death, ergo death of the human being, is the end of life", "at that point this life is over".
    Someone who gives such statements should first know precisely what life is. It's not good enough just to say "as we know it".

    Quote Originally Posted by Mana
    The question "what is life?" Is quite simply the question that I believe that you should address, before attempting to grapple with the notion of life after death.
    Exactly.

    regards

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    Re: Life after death?

    Namaste Mayank

    Quote Originally Posted by maxpsycho View Post
    What is this life? .... Biologically speaking, life is what secernates us, and our animal and plant relatives from inorganic matter. It includes the capacity to reproduce, to grow and evolve, and to love, before we die. Further than that - it's what you define it as - how you live it, who you interact with; that's the basis for the memories you collect.
    A very rudimentary answer to a very good question, I would say. So, definition of life starts with Biology and ends with Biology ! You should have thought much deeper. "Who are we and why ?" ... if this question's answer was to be found in Biology taught in Schools and Colleges then many great saints who left all luxuries of life for finding the Truth must be really mad ! Buddha must have been a lunatic of the of the first order and so must be King Janaka who had everything which this world could provided for leading a comfortable life and they left those without repenting for the sacrifice ever !

    Have you ever thought of that you also don't know what is after death and before birth. You have based your answer on some assumptions. "The Reality can be realised" ... try to meet someone who has realised It and who can show you the path to realise It. At first Narendra who was later known as Swami Vivekananda ridiculed Ramkrishna and challenged him, "Have you seen God ?" Ramkrishna had replied calmly, "Yes. More vividly than I see you." "Can you show me ?" Shocked by Ramkrishna's confidence Narendra had asked. Calm reply came from Ramkrishna, "Yes".

    A simple touch of Ramkrishna changed the life of Vivekanada. There are masters who can make you "realise" the Truth by their grace or if you tread the path they show to you. If you keep doubting sitting in your home, then you should be happy with your school-taught truth !

    There is a saying in Hindi, " One person kept doubting the veracity of availability of pearls in the sea and he kept sitting there all along.The real seeker of pearls dived into the ocean and found the pearls. "

    OM
    "Om Namo Bhagvate Vaasudevaye"

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    Re: Life after death?

    Namaste Jack,
    Scientists will never be able to verify what you ask unless of course lets say a spaceship lands on earth and the biengs on board try to re connect with their past life on this planet.

    If one takes a closer look at the validations from people who claim to have been re incarnated this would help one to understand what happens after "death", in one's journey of having a better understanding of things.


    Ohm Namah Shivayah..

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