Man Know Thyself
Life After Death
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that this ten-year old contract was your own and
continue to abide by it. This is that inward human-
being at work which, far from altering with bodily
transformation, survives countless physical changes
absolutely intact.
This proves that the word “homo sapiens”, rather
than being a label attached to a certain physical
form, which is erased with its death, is a separate
entity which remains intact even after the diffusion
of the body’s composite parts. The fact that the
body alters whereas the soul does not, is conclusive
proof of the transitional nature of the body and the
eternal nature of the soul.
Some misguided people consider life and death to
be the accumulation and subsequent diffusion of
multitudinous particles of matter. This theory has
been expounded by an Urdu poet, Chakbast, in the
following words:
What is life? Elements arranging themselves
in order, And death? Their diffusion.’
This, however, is a statement which is not borne out
by fact. If life were simply “elements arranging
