SOME QUOTES ON IMMORTALITY
“Immortality” is defined as the
state of living forever. In religion, it is known as reincarnation ---- the
belief that a soul or spirit is reborn into a new physical body after death.
According to Lord Krishna’s statement
in the Gita, Humans are eternal in
essence. They are both body and soul. The body is materialistic and perishable.
The soul is non-materialistic, hence imperishable. When a person dies, his soul
does not become non-existent.
“Just as in this body the embodied
(soul) passes into childhood, youth and old age, so also does he pass into
another body.”
The great Lord further says: “The
contacts of senses with objects, which cause heat and cold, pleasure and pain,
have a beginning and an end; they are impermanent.” The soul is the eternal Self. It is
indestructible, incomprehensible.
In a further clarification, the Lord
says: Just as a man casts off his worn out clothes and puts on new ones, so
also the embodied-self casts off its worn out bodies and enters others which
are new.
The Self, says the Lord, is changeless
because: weapons cleave it not, water moistens it not, wind dries it not.
As the Self cannot be cut, nor
burnt, nor moistened, nor dried up, it is eternal, all-pervading, stable,
immovable and ancient.
Let us now read the views of some
other thinkers who believe in immortality.
*The spirit
of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal
clod,----The English poet John Milton.
* All men’s
souls are immortal, but the soul of the righteous are both immortal and
divine,-----Greek philosopher Socrates.
*Whatsoever
that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something
celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.----Greek philosopher
Aristotle.
*’Tis the divinity
that stirs within us; ‘tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter and
intimates eternity to man. -----English author Joseph Addison.
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G.R.Kanwal
16 August 2025
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