Death

Everything is made of atoms and they are in constant flux. Nothing in this world remains as it is.

Now when you breathe, an oxygen molecule may go into your lungs. Then at another instant it may come out and enter into a dog’s lungs.

You cannot hold on to one molecule and say “ hey this is my molecule”.

There is no such thing.

In the same way there is no one single atom in your body which stays with you forever.Everything comes and goes.

The atoms that existed in your body when you were a child are all out and gone. Now you have all new atoms in your body.

Since the body is made up of millions and millions of atoms and they keep going out and new atoms come in, there is nothing in the body that you can claim as yours.

Therefore the body is not you. However there is a form which seemed to remain as it is, which you call "I".

In the same way all the thoughts in your mind are born and they die. Therefore the thoughts are not you.

If you define mind as the sum total of your thoughts, even the mind is not you, because it too is Trans migratory.

Then who is Satyajit ?

If you go and stand next to a river and say “this river is Olga”, next day when you go there none of the water molecules that you saw the previous day would be there at that position. Still you say “this is Olga”, then what is Olga ?

It is the form that appears to be continuous that is what you call as Volga. In reality there is no such solid thing “out there”.

So the only truth is that everything in this world is in a flux of change forever.

The sum total of all your past experiences and memory weaved together in a story line is the creation of “Satyajit” only in your mind. If I say show me that Satyajit NOW, what will you show ? There is nothing to show, you can't show it.

It is only clinging and grasping that creates “illusion of forms”.

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Now let me compare the Universe to a human being.

In our body thousands of cells die every moment. That gives the opportunity for the new cells to be created.

So the continuous death and recreation cycle of cells is the continuity we call life.

Similarly the universe is alive. All of us are cells of the Universe, we die and new people are born. This continuous death and birth of components (We are a few components but not all) makes the universe alive.

In Hinduism we even believe that the even universe itself goes through this cycle of death (transformation) and creation called Sristi and laya.

This cycle goes on eternally. Nothing is an exception to this. Like layers of onion, in the fractal structure of the whole Universe, from the largest to the smallest this cycle is the only truth.

So in reality “ there is no death”

Why ?

Let us say there is an object which is made of atoms named A-B-C-D there is another object made up of atoms E-F-G-H now they both die now you have two more objects. They are A-G-H-C and E-B-F-D , read these carefully.

Nothing is missing it’s all re-arranged that’s all. That’s re-birth for you.

There is only transformation no death.

Things get re-arranged. The sum total of all atoms in the universe never changes, nothing is destroyed nothing is created, everything is in flux.

That whole flux is life.

There is no death.

If you say no I want to retain A-B-C-D as A-B-C-D forever then you are not defying death but you are defying life.

Life is dynamic. Anything static is death. There is nothing static in this Universe.