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BODY AND SOUL
When we analyze life, we see that every man or woman wants to live a happy
life. But the materialistic approach towards life causes hindrance and dismay
at every step of their life as every moment of our life is perishable, mortal and
variable. Moreover, we also do not know, indeed materialistically, what real
happiness is and how it can be achieved. It is necessary that we should search
for our Real Base in order to know this Real Happiness. When we were "nothing", we must have been something, because not
to be anything negates our being. Our material life commences from the womb of
the mother. When after inception and passing through a certain process, this
matter reaches its climax a living picture comes into being from nothingness.
Circumstances and surrounding of this ?picture? provides it with such a
training that it remains ignorant of the meanings of Real Happiness, what to
say of the method of its acquisition. To embrace the Real Happiness, first of all one should have the knowledge
that life is not based upon the body only but it is based upon that Reality
which has adopted this material body as a robe for itself. After birth, the
second phase encountered by us is that in which every moment of our life dies
after giving birth to another one. The moment, which is our childhood at one
time and boyhood at another changes into old age from the youth-fullness.(Top) The Living Picture
Our access to this Reality is possible only when we know that this Living
Picture is not a ?body? but a Conscious. We are not at liberty to call it
conscious only because the conscious is that medium of our identification,
which is holding the whole edifice of our life together. It is in our knowledge
that the extinction of body uts an end to the material
density and pollution and we are also aware of the fact that the extinction of
body does not cause annihilation of the consciousness, but on the contrary it
is transferred to some other world. One thing mentioned in all the sacred books unanimously and reiteratively
is that man is not merely a material body but a consciousness. When we discuss
the life span --- birth to death period, we come to know that the
consciousness, the foundation of which was laid in the mother's womb, decreases
on one hand and increases on the other. The more the decrease in the conscious
the more is man carried towards the past; the advancement of the consciousness
results in moving towards the future. The age factor is determined because of
the increase and decrease in the consciousness. One state of the consciousness
is called the childhood, the other is termed as the Youth and the third one is
given the name of old age. In short, the consciousness which is maintaining
this material life and upon which this body is takes the evolutionary steps,
itself remains intact and constant. (Top) Study of the Self
When we study ourselves, we conclude that we have a perishable and a
limited body, which is our identification. The tangible body, which we see, is
composed of density, dirt, putrefaction and effluvia. Basis of this
putrefaction is that every man in this world has been given to understand that
he is matter; an offspring of the material world. This limited thought confine
everybody in one place and every one finds himself incarcerated in the cobweb
of restricted ideas. And thus results a confined and limited thinking. Every
body living on this planet has categorized himself as a Muslim, a Hindu, a Parsi or a Christian though the soul cannot be denominated
by any name. Because a light is only light, irrespective of its belonging to
any part of the world whether it is in Arab, The system of God is established in such a way that all His Messages which
have ever come to this world are incorporated and prevalent in their own
typical words. The words of Bible are the religion of the Christians, Quran is the foundation stone of the Muslim religion,
Hindus worship using the words of the Bhagavad-Gita. All these books are the
voices of the holy servants of God, which have spread all over the world, just
like light. When we contemplate about the creation of the universe, we eventually come
to the conclusion that our universe itself is the Voice of God. When God said,
in His Voice ?Be!? the whole universe came into being. God introduces Himself
as a Friend of the creatures. Just as a father does not forget his son,
similarly God, too, is never forgetful of His creatures. Allah or God, who is
our lord Cherisher and who provides us with every kind of resources and make us
undergo novel experiences at various stages of our life is, indeed, our Friend. Study of the sacred books reveal that God never leaves His creatures alone,
in solitude no matter how different they are in physical features from others,
when we think in terms of genetics; we find that creation is taking place under
a definite program. When a seed is sown it is nurtured by the ?mother earth? to
finally become a tree. When the seed is put in the soil, it absorbs water from
the soil and water after entering through the micropyle
nourishes the dormant seed. Cellular division takes place in the plumule, hypocotyle and the
radical of the embryo situated between the cotyledons. The hypocotyle
grows to be the trunk and the radical grows into the root of the tree. The hypogeous growth of root causes it to enter the soil to
absorb water and minerals for the germination and growth of the plant and its
fixation in the earth. Contrary to it is, the epigeous and phototropical
growth of the hypocotyle which gives rise to the
trunk. The food stored in the cotyledons is consumed during the embryonic stage
of the plant till it begins preparing food for itself by the photosynthesis
then these cotyledons dry up and plant grows into a mature tree. In the same
way, when a man puts his seed in to a woman's body, a seed like germination
process is established and a notochord is formed which finally grows into fetus and then finally a baby is born - just like the
sprouting of a plant from the earth. (Top) The Moulds of Creation
It would be true to say, in terms of genetics, that the birth process in
man, dog and cat is alike and similar in its nature. Sperms infuse in the ova
and according to a certain process it begins to grow. On the first night, it is
almost of the size of a pea and then gradually it enlarges and grows till if
becomes a living picture which is furnished with all the faculties of hearing,
sight, speech and feeling. There are ten holes in this picture; upon which
depends the whole life. Human abilities are also correlated with and dependent
on these ten holes. These ten holes are responsible for the power of speech,
hearing, smelling as well as protection and hygiene of the body through
excretion of poisonous and waste materials. If even a single hole is not
performing its task properly or is functioning defectively, then human life is
handicapped accordingly and the man becomes an invalid, useless or
comparatively less capable. (Top) Classification of Holes
Two holes of the human ears are for the hearing faculty. Two holes of eyes
are for the sight i.e. reflections of the outside objects are displayed upon
the mental screen of man through these holes to provide him the knowledge of
existence of something and this knowledge after passing through various stages
becomes the faculty of Touch. Two holes of the nose are responsible for the
smelling power. Two holes of mouth and throat are for our food intake
requirements and enable us to speak. Ninth hole is not only for the excretion
of the waste material but it is also a reproductive channel. After absorption
of the required energy from the food, the remaining waste is expelled through
the tenth hole of the body. This is a system, which is permanent and regular
and will remain so till the last Day of this world. Germination of a seed leads to the formation of two things; a trunk and a
pair of leaves. This creative process indicates that every thing and every
being is ?Dihedral? and then each of the two sides is further sub-divided to
form many sides. Man is also a compounded picture of dihedrals. There are two
brains in man, one on the right side and the other on the left side of his
skull. There are two eyes, and two nostrils. Throat is apparently one but that
also is sub-divided into two parts because of uvula, and has two openings; one
for lungs and other of the gullet. Hands are also two, then two legs, two feet,
two kidneys, two portions of liver, even heart is basically divided into two
pans by means of septum and two lungs and so on and so forth. When the material
body of man is analyzed in the like manner, we are constrained to admit that
the human creation is dihedral. More thinking leads us to the fact that mankind
and all other species are also dihedral; male and female, man and woman, father
and mother. (Top) The Law of Sex Appeal
Man (male), according to the law of Creation, is also dihedral and the
woman (female), too, is dihedral. there is a man hidden in every woman and a
woman is hiding in every man. Had Eve not been present in Adam, her birth would
not have possibly taken place. Second example is the birth of Christ from Mary.
Thus every individual is two-folded duplex. One fold is manifested and
predominant and the other immanent hidden and suppressed. Man or woman both are
dihedrals in this respect each with one side manifested and the other immanent.
The manifested side of a woman is exhibited before us in the form of a woman
but her inner side remains invisible. Similarly the man's manifested side
remains hidden It is therefore the manifested side of man which appears as a man
and the woman appear as woman is the manifested side of the woman. The opposite
inner feminine side is enfolded in the manifested side of man and the opposite
inner masculine side of a woman is enwrapped in her manifested feminine side.
The law of Sex Appeal and reproduction is based upon these very two sides.
Since the inner man of the woman is dominated therefore he longs to adopt the
predominant side of a man before him and wishes desperately to absorb in it for
completion and perfection of his self. Similarly the hidden woman in a man is
incomplete and dominated therefore ?she? also longs to embrace the manifested
woman for her completion. This means that the sex appeal is not present in the
man or woman longing for completion of the before us but exists because of the
longing for completion of the hidden woman or man in them. This is what is generally called Sex Appeal. Cases of change in sex are
commonly observed by us. This happens because the stimuli of the immanent side
become so intense and predominant that the stimuli of the manifested side
become paralyzed and suspended. It happens when the inner woman of a man
becomes predominant over the manifested masculine side and the manifested side
of the man becomes dominated and suppressed and consequently the man is
transformed into a woman And when, the stimuli of the manifested side of the
woman are over powered by the inner man in her, she changes into a man. Top The Inner and the Manifested
It is this endless chain of creation that invites our deliberation that
there is one inner side and one manifested side in us. The manifested side is
called the Matter and the Inner is called the Soul. Soul, too, is dihedral. One
of the manifestations of the soul is ?the robe? adopted by the soul and the
second manifestation is the Soul itself. Holy Qalander
Baba Auliya (May Blessings of God be upon him) in his
book Loh-o-Qalam; (The pen and the Scripturum), has exemplified these two sides as ?robe? and
?body?. He States: "A figure of flesh and bones is there before us. Physiologically,
construction of muscles etc. over the skeleton of bones has given the shape to
a body. This structure, the body, is considered to be real. For its protection
a thing called dress has been invented which could be of Cotton, Wool, or leather
etc. The attire is, basically, to protect the body of flesh and bones. The
dress, in fact, has no life or any movement of its own. When it is on the body
it moves along with the body; it means, the movement of the dress is that
movement which is transferred to it from the body, but actually the movement
pertains to the functional limbs of the body. When we lift our hand, the sleeve
also moves along with the moving arm. This sleeve is the arm of the dress,
which has been taken on for the protection of the body. Thus the definition of
the dress would be that when it is on the body the movement of the body
transform in it and when it is taken off and placed on a hanger it becomes
static and devoid of any movement. Now we take into consideration the comparison
of the dress with the body. Many examples can be put forth but to explain the
true meanings only one should suffice. That is, when one is dead, the body of
the deceased may be cut into pieces, dragged along, anything may be done to it
but it will not offer any resistance nor will any movement be initiated on its
parts. It will remain resting as and where it is laid, no trace of life - at
any time, is possible in it. It means that after death, the body becomes just
like a discarded dress. The actual person in it abandons it. He leaves it and
goes somewhere else. When it is established through observations and
experiences that the said body of flesh and bones is merely a ?dress? and not
the actual person, then it becomes necessary to find out the reality of man and
his whereabouts after leaving it. Had this body been the actual person, there should have been, somehow or
the other, some traces or signs of life after death. But the whole history of
mankind cannot produce even a instance of movement by a dead body. In this
situation, we are constrained to be curious about the person who quits the
?dress? of the body and leaves for somewhere else. The name of the very person,
as called by the prophets, is the Soul (Rooh). is the
real body of man, and this very body possesses all those potentialities which
are collectively termed as LIFE. This fascinating example of the robe and the body decisively proves that
the real proves that the real life is not the ?robe?. A robe is a robe as long
as it is upon the body, when it is taken off or discarded, it bears no
significance, it dissipates and perishes. |
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