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CHAPTER 15. LIFE AFTER DEATH AND REBIRTH
break out of the sealed casket and thus leave some holes or cracks in the casket. But nothing of the
kind happened; like sunshine a soul can pass through a wall of glass without breaking it. If x-rays
can pass through a thick wall of bones and steel, why cannot a human soul pass through a glass
casket? Logically speaking there is no difficulty.
And weight is a relative thing. What we call weight is really the pressure of gravitation on something.
If your body weight is one hundred twenty pounds here, and you are flown to the moon, your weight
will not remain the same; it will be eight times less than it is here. Your hundred twenty pounds will
be reduced to a mere fifteen pounds. The gravitational pull of the moon is eight times less than that
of the earth. For this reason, if you can jump five feet high here, you can jump forty feet high on the
surface of the moon. In other words, weight is nothing but the gravitational pull of the earth, and it
is possible the earth cannot pull a human soul to itself. Maybe, the law of gravitation does not apply
to souls, and there fore souls have no weight whatsoever. If we can build a space which is free from
gravitation, then every thing in that space will be without weight.
The first and the most frightening experience of those who first landed on the moon was one of
weightlessness. As soon as man passes beyond the earth’s gravitational field, which extends up
to two hundred miles in space, he becomes absolutely weightless. Every astronaut in a spacecraft
hurtling through space has to keep himself tied to his seat, otherwise he will fly like a balloon to the
roof of the spacecraft.
So the weight of a thing is relative to many things. And it is just possible that a soul has no weight.
For this reason, experiments carried out in Paris and elsewhere were doomed to fail. In my view, the
pull of gravitation applies to a thing only in pro, portion to the density of its matter; the less density
the less weight. As far as the soul is concerned, it is the end part of density, it is all rarity, and
therefore the law of gravitation ceases to operate on it The soul is wholly outside the jurisdiction of
this law And as long as we continue to enquire into the question of soul with the tools of matter,
science will go on denying its existence. We need altogether new tools of investigation to discover
the law of the soul. The psychic societies and pioneers of parapsychology like Rhine and Meyer and
Lodge, whom I spoke about a little while ago, are engaged in devising such new tools in place of the
established tools of physical science, and perhaps with their help science will confirm the insights of
the mystics which they cannot prove with any evidence.
Question 7
QUESTIONER: YOU SAID THAT ARJUNA WAS SURRENDERED TO KRISHNA, AND YET HE
WAS A FREE INDIVIDUAL WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT VIVEKANANDA WHO WAS
SIMILARLY SURRENDERED TO RAMAKRISHNA? WHY COULD HE NOT BE ENLIGHTENED?
There are reasons for it.
The relationship between Ramakrishna and Vivekananda is basically one of the master and the
disciple; it is not the same relationship between Krishna and Arjuna. Secondly, Krishna is not trying
to prepare Arjuna in a way so that he can take his message to the world at large; all his teachings are
meant for Arjuna’s growth and are exclusively addressed to him. On the other hand Ramakrishna
wants Vivekananda to be his messenger to the whole world.
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