Religion and Science
4. Religion and the Life Hereafter
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transformation, just as a whole machine is affected
when one part of it is broken, or as the breaking of a
single string affects the tone of a musical
instrument. But such is not the case with the soul.
This shows that the soul is independent of the body
and has its own existence. This is why a scientist
has said, “Personality is changelessness in change,”
that is, the human personality is self-existent (as
compared to the body), keeping its existence in
changeless form amidst continuous changes.
Further proof of the truth of this concept is
provided by the discovery in the field of
psychology of the ‘unconscious’ or the
subconscious’ — a major part of the human brain. It
has been established that the thoughts stored in the
unconscious remain in exactly the same condition
until death. Freud writes in his thirty-first lecture:
The laws of Logic — above all, the law of
contradiction, do not hold for processes in the
Id. Contradictory impulses exist side by side
without neutralizing each other or drawing
apart; at most they combine in compromise.
There is nothing in the Id, which can be com-
