We are born of something beyond physical
existence, and it is to there that we return.
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The cosmic breath is
happening right here
inside your human
body as you read these
words.
his world is so large but
everything in it is so temporary,
isn't that melancholic? Even the
beautiful stars up in the sky that shower
us with light are perhaps not going to be
there some million years later. In fact,
some of them are not there anymore.
That's how this world works. From the
human body to the stars above,
everything is temporary. Nothing lasts
forever, everything has to go.
There is one cell in the very beginning
of a human form. That cell then divides,
and continues to divide. But what causes
these cells to turn into a skin cell, a
muscle cell or a bone cell? What tells
them to be a heart instead of a leg? It is
the underlying pattern of energy that is
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the template for the human body. The
cells are following a guide, a field of
forces around which they shape
themselves. If there was no template,
there would be no organization of these
cells and it would just be the same kind
of cell over and over again, never
turning into something different from
the cell it was divided from.
The Upanishads say that the pranamaya
kosha (energy body) is created by even
a deeper level of existence called the
manomaya kosha (mind). The mental is
even subtler than the energy (prana),
which it uses to create physical matter.
In this era, most of the mainstream
population believes that the body comes
first and gives rise to the mind. Most
people believe that the fetus or embryo