The very first step in self-realization is realizing one’s identity as separate from the body. “I am not this body but am spirit soul” is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying “I am not this body,” but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased within the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death, we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness.

Question 1: What is our actual identity:-

• Human Being

• A biochemical structure

• A 3D projection in 4D spacetime

• Spirit Soul

Answer explanation

The memory cells of our brain get replaced every 7 years. So, theoretically we shouldn't remember our childhood. The very fact we can proves that we are beyond the biochemical composition of the body.

Question 2: How will a fish taken out of the ocean be happy:-

• Providing constant food

• Providing very big and spacious aquarium

• Providing comforts and modern amenities like pet dogs

• Sending back to the ocean

Answer explanation

Nothing will make the fish happy unless we send it back home. Similarly nothing can make us happy until we connect to our actual home, the kingdom of God.

Question 3: How to transend death and become immortal:-

• By utilising technology such as regeneration, organ transplant etc. to regularly fix our organs

• By uploading our consciousness to internet so that we can live forever

• By using 3D printing to get new bodies

• Self realization

Answer explanation

No human invention can make us immortal because the inventions themselves cannot work till infinity.

Question 4: How to be fully independent and free:-

• Universal democracy

• Worldwide communism

• Colonising other planets

• Being situation in our constitutional position as spirit soul

Answer explanation

Any method will be temporary because our universe is itself temporary. So eternal independence cannot be achieved unless we connect to the divine.

Consciousness cannot be denied. A body without consciousness is a dead body. As soon as consciousness is removed from the body, the mouth will not speak, the eye will not see, nor the ears hear. A child can understand that. It is a fact that consciousness is absolutely necessary for the animation of the body. What is this consciousness? Just as heat or smoke are symptoms of fire, so consciousness is the symptom of the soul. The energy of the soul, or self, is produced in the shape of consciousness. Indeed, consciousness proves that the soul is present. This is not only the philosophy of the Bhagavad-gītā but the conclusion of all Vedic literature.

Question 5: What is death?

• End of everything

• Cessation of quantum fluctuations in spacetime

• Collapse of observable universe

• Removal of consciousness

What is Consciousness:-

• Symptom of the soul

• A sentinal intelligence embedded in simulation

• Chemical fluctuations of the brain

• Quantum phenomenon of the grey matter or third eye

Answer explanation

Consciousness is the symptom of the soul. The soul is itself part and parcel of God hence it is not composed of matter.

Because we cannot perceive the soul by our gross senses, we deny it. Actually there are so many things that are there which we cannot see. We cannot see air, radio waves, or sound, nor can we perceive minute bacteria with our blunt senses, but this does not mean they are not there. By the aid of the microscope and other instruments, many things can be perceived which had previously been denied by the imperfect senses. Just because the soul, which is atomic in size, has not been perceived yet by senses or instruments, we should not conclude that it is not there. It can, however, be perceived by its symptoms and effects.

Question 7: How can the soul be perceived:-

• Through microscope

• Living symptoms and effects

• Through psychological experiments

• Through ghosts

Answer explanation

Since the soul is divine, it cannot be perceived or detected by our inventions.

All feelings of distress and happiness are due to the body. Under certain conditions the body and mind feel happiness and distress. Factually we are hankering after happiness, for the soul’s constitutional position is that of happiness. The soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Being, who is sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ – the embodiment of knowledge, bliss, and eternity. Indeed, the very name Kṛṣṇa, which is nonsectarian, means “the greatest pleasure.” Kṛṣ means “greatest” and ṇa means “pleasure.” Kṛṣṇa is the epitome of pleasure, and being part and parcel of Him, we hanker for pleasure. A drop of ocean water has all the properties of the ocean itself, and we, although minute particles of the Supreme Whole, have the same energetic properties as the Supreme.

Question 8: Why is there distress and sadness in the world?

• Corrupt government

• Just by chance

• Our misidentification with the body

• Aliens

Answer explanation

When we realize we are immortal, unlimitedly happy souls having an eternal relationship with the all-loving, all-beautiful Lord; all our distresses will cease to be.

Who is God?

• Human imagination and mythology

• Ancient aliens

• Idol

• Krishna

Answer explanation

This statement is backed up the divine vibrations of the scriptures which are beyond this material existence.

What is the greatest pleasure?

• Food

• God or Krishna

• Physical Relationship

• Money

Answer explanation

All pleasures of this world are temporary and filled with the dualities of happiness and sadness. But, since God is beyond this material existence and fully blissful; the greatest pleasure is associating with the almighty.