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
"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 )
