Saturday, September 03, 2011

Vinayaka chavithi and organ transplantation _donating your worn clothes

on the  occasion of ganesh chaturthi  I am reminded of how  our ancestors were more progressive and  had a better vision and imagination than the present  generation of indians.
In India, the concept of organ transplant has been in existence from ancient times- the oldest example is Lord Ganesh - an example of xeno-transplantation.

every one keeps saying



Ramanuja's Commentary
Weapons are powerless to inflict any injury by cutting or piercing, fire is powerless to burn, water is powerless to wet and air is powerless to dry the eternal soul. The soul having the propensity of pervading everything being capable by its nature of interpenetrating all substances. It is subtler than any substance and no substance can penetrate it. The effects of cutting, burning, soaking, drying and others which takes place by weapons, fire, water, air and the rest penetrate the object which is the focus of their direction; but due to its impregnable nature the soul is uninfluenced being beyond the scope of the material substratum. Hence the eternal soul is unchangeable, immovable and everlasting
 “acchedyo-ayam adahyo-ayam
akledyo-asoshya ev ch
nity sarv-gatah sthanur

achalo-ayam sanatanah” (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter II verse 24)

"Sri Krishna said: For this individual soul is incapable of being cut; and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. This soul is eternal, constant, omnipresent, unchangeable, immovable and everlasting."The body is perishable,subject to the process of aging,sickness and  injury.
Our body is like our clothes that we wear on our body & after death these worn out clothes are dropped by the embodied soul . You in essence are a 'Soul' & this 'Soul' of yours shall wear another body ( read, shall wear another pair of clothes) after death. So this eternal Soul which is indestructible, changes its present embodied form for another embodied form, when the physical body perishes.

why is it that we are so attached to theses worn out clothes so much ?
why we don't want to donate theses clothes?
even when  we are going to burn them and  they are not  going to remain in  their present status ,and the same  wornout clothes can give  another Human being  a new life.

we have heard of  godaana, bhoodaanam ,vastra daanam etc
it is high time  the  Hindu religious heads  come up with the  value of  kaya daanam  ( donating  your  dead body/organs ) kaaya vastradaanam,(donating  your  wornout  coth like dead body /organs )



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