Forgotten Bodies
Submitted by Mukunda Goswami on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 02:00.
Thought For the Day:
Thought For the Day
One way to help us realize "I am not this body" is to remember that
forgetfulness generally happens when we change bodies. Actually the
body is constantly changing, so we're constantly forgetting. But the
reason we can't remember past lives is because we have completely
changed bodies.
A great way to explain this is as follows. When I dream vividly, I think it's real. Therefore I am totally forgetting that I'm the body lying in the bed.
Near death experiences and other out of body experiences are also convincing (sometimes clinically
proven) evidence of the soul being distinct from the body.
The subtle body of mind, intelligence and ego is at work during dreams.