The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 5.7 Swami Krishnananda
Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Chapter 5: The Mortal and the Immortal-7. 1. The phenomenon of death is visible before our eyes because of a mixing up of standpoints. This mixing up is called adhyasa in philosophic language, a superimposition of one thing on another thing. We read one meaning in another and that meaning in this, and so on. That which exists is not that which dies. And that which does not exist is not that which dies. Therefore, one cannot say what dies. The process of death is one of transition, and is not a ‘destruction’ of anything. A change of condition is what we call death, which is a change that is required by the law of the evolution of the universe. 2.. In fact, we die every moment. Every cell of our body changes constantly, and it is opined by biologists that after every seven years we become entirely changed personalities, physically. All the cells of the body renew themselves in such a manner that we are new beings after many years. Not merely that, eve...