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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
words moksha or liberation is used, usually they are talking about the body only. They are trying to make it immortal. When we say a person is going to live forever, immortality is what we are seeking for the body. How do we get it? It is by definition, has to die. Every form of life is born, it grows and it dies. This is a cycle, it has to go on. There are, I am aware, I am aware in the sense that I am aware through some knowledge given to me by some of my doctor friends who talked to me about it, they are thinking in terms of continuing the body forever. In agony, is it? I am very much agonised when I came to know that one of our brother’s mother was in U.S.A. in a state of coma and they said she shall continue in that state forever and they tried to preserve that body. It is a very funny idea. I am unable to understand the logic or the reason behind it. May be I am ill equipped to understand the science of medicine. But, my common sense does not permit me to accept it. Body is something that is bound to perish and the sanskrit word “seeryathe iti shariram” means that which perishes is body, “seeryathe iti shariram”, then what is the point in worrying about it.
How to live with old age is the problem today. It has been a problem from the beginning. And that is
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