Are we body?

Who we are?

Let us try to find out intellectually who we are using the only instrument i.e. so called mind, available with us for anything (including so called spirituality.)

About ourselves everybody of us have only two informations i.e. the body and the so called mind. The third information like soul, self, Brahman etc. is nothing but concepts may be given names out of fear of so called death or for other purpose about which everybody is not aware with. The third element may be some presence which might have been experienced on individual level. It is better not name it because that creates problem in analysis.

The body has come first, and then the mind (the sum total of data and programmes) gets created/implanted in the body with the help of its sense organs for its smooth functioning in the so called world. The question arises that are we body or mind or both or none or both plus something extra.

1. Are we body?

Let us analyse with the help of following facts:

1. The body is made up of food that it has consumed. The food has been prepared by the plants with the help of water, carbon dioxide, minerals from the soils etc. in the presence of sunlight. Are we water, soil, etc. so called panchbhoota?

2. If we would have been bodies there was no question of the so called death but the person is said to be dead even though his body is present.

3. The growth of the body from fetus to young is nothing but retention of some of the foods the body has consumed. Hence the body is nothing but food.

Are we food?

4. The foods that the body consumes are all dead as per our scientific knowledge and understanding. It means the raw materials from which the body is made up of are all dead ones. Nobody eats live foods. Even if somebody eats live food (sprouts, small live creatures, etc.) it becomes dead in the gut system otherwise digestion which is necessary for growth and functioning of the body, will not happen. Therefore the final product cannot be live if the raw materials used are dead. Natural conclusion should be that the body is already dead. But this has been labeled as live only because of movement of its internal organs (heart beat, blood flow, etc.) and movement of motor organs. It can be compared with the moving electric fan. When the current is there the fan is said to be live and in absence of the current it comes back to original state i.e. dead or inactive. We may or may not be like the current in the presence of which the fan moves.

5. The body is made up of a no of cells and each cell is an independent life. If a person is body then he is a combination of trillions of independent lives somehow (may be certain natural programme) combined together. Organ transplantations, blood donation, invirto-fertilization, etc. are ample proofs. After blood donation or organ donation one does not feel that he has reduced. Similarly one does not feel increased after an organ is transplanted into his body.

6. In the body millions of cells are dying every second and millions are taking births every second. In every 7 year the whole body is almost new as no cell has life more than 7 years. Then what is the age of the body at any given point of time. Anybody can guess.

7. Each cell of the body is made up of atoms inside which electrons are moving at the speed of light. Hence each atom may be termed as live as the movement is there inside. This is true for so called inanimate things also. The atoms can be converted into energy (e= mc2 ). It means body is nothing but energy. Are we energy?

8. Now the science is capable of producing a no of copies of the same body. Not only that designer baby concept is gaining ground where one can choose about the various qualities he wants to be present in his going to be born offspring. Many religious concepts will be wiped out.

9. The scientists are claiming on the basis of experimental results that within 20 years the technology will be available to make this body permanent i.e. immortal. The increased average age compared to 100 years back is the proof in this regard. What will happen to the concepts like rebirth and re-incarnation?