If there’s no life after death, why’s there confusion about heaven and hell in almost all the religions in the world and more specifically, across many cultures? The early philosophers who formulated the religions had to face the problem of regulating human conduct. Some form of control was, is and will be needed to influence …
40. Heaven, Hell and in Between/ The Next Lives/ The Order of ‘God’? Read More »
When speaking about souls, the most common questions coming to our minds are about the previous and afterlives and life after death. This discussion could be meaningful only after our understanding of the consciousness and karma. Across different cultures, it is generally believed that upon death, a soul can be born again as a different …
With our understanding of evolution and through a lot of science fictions, we now know life as a process can’t be confined only to Earth. Through scientific research, it is understood that extra-terrestrial life is not just possible, but inevitable. The evolution of life on any other part of our universe depends on a planet’s …
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In our previous example, in the first case; what is ‘present’ for one body (Sirius) is ‘past’ for another (Earth), and in the second case, the ‘future’ for one object (Earth) is ‘present’ for the other (Sirius). The time dilation principle, where the velocity of an object can slow down its flow of time, has …
By karma, if what is done in the present can affect the future of a living being, then there must be a definite chain of events leading to that point in the future. We have heard about this chain of events as the fate. Some believe in it while others say ‘fate is what we …
In our daily lives, we face situations where we act from our thoughts arising out of our past experiences. These thoughts are usually coupled with emotions. How many times in a day we lose control and hurt people around us by both words and physical harm, but when we become the victim in a similar …
35. Causality of ‘Life’ or Life of ‘Causality’?/ The Good and the Bad Read More »
Each of the individuals involved in the previous situation has a unique cause and a unique effect on the event. And by individuals, we don’t just mean the people, but the animals too! We must remember, each of them has a unique past, present and future. The number of possible futures for each of the …
The law of karma is explained to be a holistic concept by many spiritual philosophers. It is said that karma is not just confined to the actions of individuals, but their thoughts too! Since it is the thoughts that materialise into actions; the law applies to thoughts too. Think bad about a person, someone else …
Living organisms, be it single-cellular, multicellular or even viruses, exhibit some dependency on their surroundings. By surroundings, we don’t just mean the environment an organism dwells in, but also the other organisms that coexist with it. This relationship between organisms and their environments can be symbiotic or parasitic or may involve mutualism or even be …
