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Articles: Devotion | Is the world a Stage?
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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The Body – A Suitable Vehicle
Where do these souls pick their ‘costumes’ from? They have already chosen their mothers while in the astral plane. The soul enters a developing foetus at around the 20th week of pregnancy. We may compare the womb to a closet. Just as the actor picks his costume from the closet, the soul would find its matching apparel in the developing foetus in a mother’s womb, and several weeks later make its final entry onto the stage of the world as a new born baby. The body of the foetus is entirely made of earthly material from the food consumed by the mother, right from the single fertilised egg cell to a fully grown newborn. The infant passes through many stages until old age, continuing its physical growth from the earthly food consumed. That is why the body is referred to as the ‘food-sheath.’
We may also compare the human body to a motor car or vehicle for the earthly journey and the individual soul, its driver. So long as the car is in the production line or in the dealer’s yard it carries no registration number plate. It has to bear the registration plate the moment it is driven away from the show-room. The foetus too bears no name and has to be registered at birth, with a name, which is its ‘number-plate,’ to function in the world! One thing comes absolutely clear out of this illustration - just as the driver is not the car, man must realise he is not his body. As the driver discards the old car and drives a new car until the journey is completed, the soul too keeps discarding old tattered bodies to take new ones in its journey to freedom and enlightenment.
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