Death: Before, During & After... Death: Before, During & After.. | Page 10

What is the truth behind the people’s common belief of
ceremonial offerings to the dead relative? What is the significance
of the various socially prescribed ceremonies after death? Will
all these rituals benefit the dead? Should one perform such rituals?
This book clarifies all these questions succinctly.
When the mysteries of death, which create fear in people,
are exposed, one finds an unfailing consolation when facing such
situations in life.
A Gnani Purush is someone who remains separate from
his body and every event related to the body, separate from
birth and separate from death. He constantly remains the ‘knower
and observer’ of his body. He experiences the eternal state of
the Self, free from the bondage of birth and death. Gnani Purush,
through His Gnan, sees it all as it is, and candidly tells us about
the mystery of life and death and freedom from both.
The Soul is eternal. It is beyond birth and death. It is
Absolute Knowledge. The Self is the absolute knower and
observer. The Soul has no birth or death. Despite this, through
his intellect, man perceives and experiences the cycle of birth
and death. Naturally then the main question that arises is how
do birth and death occur? During birth and death, what other
things besides the Soul are present? What happens to them all?
Who is it that goes through rebirth? How does it happen? Who
is it that goes and comes? How are the sequences of ‘cause and
effects’ and ‘effect and cause’ established? How can that be
stopped? How is life span determined? What does life span
depend on? Who except the Gnani Purush can give exact
scientific answers to such eternal questions?
Furthermore, what are the laws governing the entry of a
worldly soul into various other life forms? What are the causes