Man Know Thyself
Life After Death
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which has already happened once before? Even in
the world of matter there are indications of the
practicability of a repetition of life. Every year, in
the rainy season, vegetation flourishes and greenery
spreads in all directions. Then the summer
pronounces its death sentence and the earth dries
up. Where flowers bloomed, only a barren plain can
be seen. Thus a fully- fledged life expires. But when
the rains come again, and water pours down from
the sky, that very same vegetation is revived and
dry land once again becomes a meadow. In this
very same manner man will be raised to life after
his death.
Let’s look at it from another angle. Doubts occur
concerning life after death because our imagination
is formulated in terms of our present physical
existence. We consider the mobile figure outwardly
apparent to us to be the essential human-being, and
wonder how this form can be refashioned and
raised up again once it has rotted away and
mingled with the earth. We observe that when
death strikes, an animate human-being becomes
silent; his motion is halted and all his faculties cease
to function. Afterwards he is buried in the ground,
