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Originally Posted by tiberry
I am...
I am all that there is.
Through me - as me, so shall you know forever.
For-you-are-ever...
There is not which is not me and all that you are, I am.
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Where are this sentences from? I ask because this is pretty close to what Krishna told Arjuna, in battle field, when Arjuna was confused and about to give up fighting against his own kith and kin.
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Originally Posted by tiberry
Actually quite the opposite!
The statement "I think, therefore I am." alludes to the perception that you (or whomever invokes the statement) is separate and distinct from me. If I am all there is, then you cannot be separate from me, regardless of your thoughts/perceptions to the contrary.
Hence, the root of my thoughts on this thread. We tend to fear death and feel sad for those that have died - believing that they are somehow "gone" or forever lost from our world, grasp, perception.
I find comfort in my belief that we're all mistakenly (or necessarily) perceiving ourselves as somehow separate and distinct from "all there is".
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In Hinduism there are two faiths. You are not different from God rather part of him or preferebly IT. The other faith is that you are what you are, and you reach God through devotion, karma, or etc. Since I dont beleive in God, I dont fall in to either of them. But I am so well connected and clearly part of the grand universe or even the consiousness that had created it.
Some times i feel like a freak for thinking like this. Some times i feel good that I could think like it.
But I had not read anything on these, may be should. You folks could suggest books.
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Originally Posted by *Nikki*
I am very confused about what happens when we die. I am a person who likes a definite answer to things.
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1. You disintegrate and decompose. The mass of your body goes back to the elements
2. You had safely left your revised form (gene) with your offspring - so you live for ever
3. You had passed some of your DEEEEEEEP memories to a dedicated part in your offspring's dormant memory (still a theory)
4. And you are gone. You are nowhere. No hell no heaven. Your mind doesnt exist with out your body.
Well I will appreciate if tiberry and baraka_guru comment on this answer