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WorksheetsBeyond birth and death Part 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 14mins
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Who is God?
Human imagination and mythology
Ancient aliens
Idol
Krishna
What is the greatest pleasure?
Food
God or Krishna
Physical Relationship
Money
