As we have discussed there is no such thing as soul that has the properties that we described. There is that feeling of “I” or feeling of identity within us but it is the property that brain produces. The feeling of living entity is also produced by brain. The feeling of soul and living entity is essentially one feeling.
What is really a living entity? We feel that there is something within us that is alive. This is just feeling that is produced by brain. We are just like machines. Our body-machine has organ brain and brain is the one who is producing the feeling of soul, “I” and feeling of living entity.
The question I would now pose is “who are we”? What is death?
We are just our body. We are like a machine. Like a machine, body has different parts and organs. If some of the parts do not function, we die. The body as a whole stops functioning. As an example, your heart has to be functioning all the time else death of the body will occur. You can replace the heart but a functioning heart is a must else death will happen. Brain is another organ, which is necessary else body will stop functioning. When body stops functioning then we can say that death of the person occurs. I am not trying to define exact definition of death here. When body dies then brain also stops functioning and the feeling of “I” also goes away. The feeling of living entity that is created by brain also dies with the death of the body. All our memories and perceptions that brain has stored over the years, goes away too. The unique genetic combination that produced this body in the universe is not going to get repeated. We are not talking about cloning here. Even after cloning the different body will happen and it will have a different “I” feeling then you had during your lifetime.
Death of the body is the end of all your existence, your memories and your perceptions and feeling of “I” and feeling of living entity.
This leads us to a question. Is there reincarnation? Is there anything like hell and heaven? What happens to us after death?
What is reincarnation? We feel that there is a separate living entity within us. We do not like to die. We do not know what happens to that living entity once we die. We have seen that the feeling of living entity is a feeling that is produced by brain. There is no such real living entity that lives in our body. We are our body. Our body consists of parts and organs. Brain is one such organ. The feeling of “I”, soul and living entity are nothing but feeling produced by brain. That is how our brain is. Producing such feelings are property of brain. There is no separate living entity that lives in us.
This leads us to conclusion that when our body and brain dies, these feelings die and there is no point in discussing what happens to the living entity because the feeling of living entity is a transient feeling. These feelings go away when you are unconscious. They will go away once and for all when your brain dies. There is no such thing as reincarnation as the feeling of soul and living entity are just product of brain.
Now let us look at what is hell and heaven. One of the property of the brain is that when it does not know it imagines. It creates imaginations. You do not know what happens to you after death. When you think about it there is no answer. Now we know that “I” is just a feeling and it is a product of the brain. We know that what happens after death. These feelings go away once brain and body are dead.
When brain did not had an answer to the question then brain imagines. When brain did not had a satisfactory answer then brain gets scared and creates imaginations such that it can handle fear of death.
The whole concept of reincarnation, hell and heaven is an imagination of the brain. Answer these questions. Are heaven and hell places? Where are these places? In the sky? Where in the sky? Who lives in these places? How do they go there? If you look outside in the sky then there is grand vast universe. There are stars and galaxies. There is no heaven and hell. There are lot of stories about heaven and hell. These are just fairy tales. They are not real.  |