The body and the soul
Recently, I received a mail from a lady who lost her young son in an accident. When she went to adopt another child, she felt as if her son came to her and told her, “Why do you need somebody else when I am already there?” At times, when she gets up at night, she feels as if her son is sleeping next to her. Friends and people around say that it is psychological and caused by the trauma and pain of losing her child, that it is in her mind. Even the psychologists say so. But no, it is not in the mind.
Another one of my readers recently died of a heart attack, all of a sudden. His family wrote to me saying that they can feel him in the house. They feel he is crying and asking for food. They asked me if it was their mind playing tricks on them. Again, it is not the mind.
If you think it is the mind, then you can try this experiment. Just think of somebody you do not know and who has gone and try to develop closeness with that person and try getting those feelings and emotions, thinking about it day and night. The person will not come to you. Somebody who is close to us shares common karmas with us and these karmas tie them to us.
When a person dies suddenly, the soul is forced to leave the body, and at that time, the soul does not understand that the body is not there anymore. It continues to experience sensations such as sleep, food, sexual urges, etc like a normal person, but it cannot sleep or eat or have sex, because it no more has a body.
We have a body so that we can go through desires, experiences and sensations of the physical world. There is no other purpose of the body, but to experience the physical world and go beyond. We are however much more beyond the body and the physical world.
Originally published in DNA India.

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