The presidential nominee Pratibha Patil created one more controversy by publicly claiming
that Dada Lekhraj who died in 1969 spoke to her through the body of
Dadiji Hriday Mohini! In the age of space search and computer, if a
nominee for the post of the highest post of the nation believes in such
a superstitious mumbo jumbo, it does not augur well for the nation.
Dadaji’s spirit advised her to be prepared to shoulder the greater
responsibility.Unwittingly she has degraded Dadaji by confirming that
in spite of he being a high priest of Brahmakumari movement, his soul
has not obtained moksha - salvation after about 37 years and still lingering
in space. Pratibhaji, will you please let us now when he will get moksha?
The concept of the existence of soul after death is prevailing in all
religions and cultures. In Hinduism, theory of Karma and Reincarnation
is accepted as good as the theory of gravitation and theory of relativity.
But logically it is faulty and quite unscientific. In Europe and America
there are psychic mediums who claim that they can contact and speak
with the spirit of the dead persons. There are many people who believe
in this hoax. Readers will be surprised to know that highly intelligent
persons such as Retired Supreme Court Judge, V.R.Krishna Iyer
and Dr.Deepak Chopra are amongst them! More about Dr. Chopra’s
views to follow later on. Several books have been published on this
subject of life after death and near death experiences by the researchers
of metaphysics and parapsychology.
But the main stream scientists dub these books and research as pseudo
science.
You will
be surprised to know that New Age movement guru Dr. Chopra also believes
in existence of soul and it can be contacted and spoken through the
mediums! He is a scholar of vedantic philosophy and well versed with
modern physics and medical science. His several books have been on the
best sellers list. One of the 4 persons who has gained the admiration
and popularity of the American people is Dr. Chopra. The other three
are Vivekananda, Osho Rajnish and Mahesh Yogi. In his latest book, Life
After Death: Burden of Proof, he has tried to prove the notion that
consciousness survives after death of a person. With his highly advanced
knowledge of latest research in physics, sharp logic and mastery of
language, he has made almost a convincing case in favour of the notion
that there is life after death. You have to think twice before you can
dub him as a superstitious person. But he himself has given a very good
reason to show. In his book, he has quoted his own encounter with 3
mediums who contacted the spirit of his father who had died some
years-ago! Both Pratibha Patil and Dr. Chopra are on the same
wave length vis-a-vis the notion of the existence of soul that can be
contacted and spoken. One can presume that they may be believing also
in the existence of ghosts. Dr. Chopra has plunged into a dark bottomless
ocean of life after death.
It is
not surprising if a person of such a high intelligence was fooled by
the mediums. Yuri Geller has successfully fooled the scientists
of the world by his so-called psychic talent of bending spoons by mind
power and some other magic tricks. An American magician James Randy
has said that the scientists also can be fooled by a very smart magician.
He said that Yuri was hoaxer. Yuri filed a defamation case against Randy
but the court dismissed his case and fined Yuri to refund the legal
expenses he incurred to defend himself. How Dr. Chopra was fooled by
the mediums is a matter of investigation.
Out of
the debate of existence of soul, scores of doubts and questions can
be raised. Can Dr.Chopra or any other proponent of existence of soul
reply convincingly strictly in scientific terms and not in philosophic
jargons the following questions:-
(1) After death, for what duration the souls
of the dead persons are kept in suspense in space? Do some souls get moksha -salvation immediately or all of them remain suspended
for indefinite period?
(2) Has soul choice to decide when and where to take rebirth?
(3) Who
controls the rebirths of billions of souls?
(4)
How a soul would know to enter into a fertilized egg of a particular
woman at a particular place?
(5) In cases of
multiple births, how more than one soul know that there is vacancy for more than
one soul in a particular womb?
(6) Can a soul
of a male take rebirth as a female and vice versa?
(7) Can a soul
of a Hindu take rebirth as a non-Hindu and vice versa?
(8) And finally
for D. Chopra, can a human consciousness take rebirth as an insect, a bird or an
animal?
(9) Souls and consciousness are invisible on earth. Do they turn into 3 dimensional entity with physical organs such as eyes, ears
and tongues? This question arises because the spirits
speak with the mediums.
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