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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
religions. Some religions of course believe in keeping it alive even after death. I don’t know how they do it. Egyptians did it with some mummys and in modern religions, some do cremate, some bury it, and then expect it to be there. Even those people who burn the bodies after death have got the attitude of putting some gold or silver coins along with it, hoping that the soul will take them along with it. I don’t know why they do, that is a criminal waste of money so far I see, but then they do it. But these are all, what I am trying to say is, that religions had to take recourse to such ideas because of the thinking that the body is permanent and if not, should be made permanent.
A man is immortal not because of the body. A man is immortal because of his preachings, because of his teachings, we remember Lord Sri Krishna, we remember the sage Buddha, we remember the Lord Christ or we remember the Revered Prophet Mohammed. They are continuing, they are immortal. To say that they are dead is meaningless. They are alive. They are with us. Their thoughts are influencing us every day. Every day we are getting influenced by them. How do you say that they have not reached their moksha or liberation from the body. Again when the
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