ATMA AND JAD PRKRATI

Dear Sadhaka, namaste! (Pratapbhatt@yahoo.com)
Manjulaji has given a wonderful food for us to chew!
Q:Who dies if soul or Jad body/prakruti don't die?

- None, really! Body is integration of elements-
mahabhutas, and they disintegrate eventually back into
the elements. Atman doesn't come and go, no birth and
death, one indivisible Consciousness, giving prakruti
its existence, like sun giving life on earth. So
Birth and death are concepts of mind! Body gives up
Prana/Atman shakti(cannot hold on any longer) due to
its detoriation with time and we say its a death! But
isness-existence of deadbody continues as mahabhutas!

Q:If Soul doesn't eat and body (dead man can not eat)
doesn't eat then who actually needs food?
A:Only in the presence of Atman and Prana shakti(of
Atman only) body(food body) seems to be eating
apparant food in another form.(Brahmarpanam,
Brahmahavi....)
Q:If Soul is all pervading, that means this
consciousness is with, within and without then why we
call somebody 'dead'?
A: Just as Consciousness is all pervading, still we
call prakruti Jad(as in first question of yours) which
is a concept of mind. From the Consciousness point of
view, its just a pure perception of an object we call
dead, like all other objects of the world inside and
outside! Our mind has conceptualized the perceived
object as dead or alive, good or bad, pleasures or
pains etc etc for practical reasons.
We cannot experience Jad-gross as Jad, it is
experienced only as Consciousness of that which we
choose to call Jad/dead, otherwise in itself it is not
Jad or chetan, dead or alive etc etc. all being
concepts of mind!
Saadar Namaskar!
--- Manjula Patel wrote:

> Loving Divine,
> With humble pranams, I present few sentences for
> discussion:
>
> - If Soul / Atma doesn't die, if matter / jad
> doesn't die then who
> dies? Little clarification: we call
> prakruti/body jad so think before
> giving your answer.
> - If Soul doesn't eat and body (dead man can not
> eat) doesn't eat then
> who actually needs food?
> - If Soul is all pervading, that means this
> consciousness is with,
> within and without then why we call somebody
> 'dead'?
>
> Enough for now.
> With love,
> always at Thy Divine Feet