Is it possible ?? : By H.G Ambuja Krishna Prabhu
The author holds a master degree in science, currently he is
serving as a youth preacher in VISA , ISKCON , Tripureshwor , Kathmandu, Nepal.
He often travels to many parts of Nepal presenting the vedic literatures to the
youths of Nepal.
Source : Back To Godhead Magazine ,Nepal.
Transhumanism,
abbreviated as H+or h +, is an international intellectual and cultural movement
the human condition by
developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to
greatly enhance human intellectual, physical and psychological capacities.
Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging
technologies that could overcome
fundamental human limitations, as well as study the ethical matters
involved in developing and using such technologies. They predict that human
beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such
greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label '' posthuman''.
that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally
transforming
In Bhagavata purana 9.3 . there is the story of Cyavana muni
,a sage who later got married with the daughter of king Saryati one of the son
of Manu . the sage was an old man and the princess as a chaste wife never complained about it. One day when the
heavenly physicians the Asvini-kumara
brothers once visited Cyavana muni, the muni requested them to give
him back his youth. These two physician tooks cyavana muni to a particular
lake, in which they bathed and regained full youth. This show that there is
possibililty to gain youth and overcome old
age . In another story from the same canto of the Bhagavata purana 9.18.
king yayati regained his youth by exchanging his old age body with his youngest
son Puru. The only purpose of exchanging the youth body was to enjoy the sex
desire which he was not satisfied due to old age he acquired by the curse of
his father-in-low sukracharya. After his body was transformed into youth he
engaged himself for thousand of years in active sex life with his wife Devyani. However he could
not satisfy his senses. Finally after understanding that the
senses could never be satisfied he then proceed to understand the real meaning
of life. King yayati returned his son's youthful body and regained his old body
and then utilized his life for self realization.
From the above story we can understand that people from time
immemorial are diseased with the identification of the self as a body, which of
course is an illusion that everybody knows and sees people dying and the dead
body , knows and sees people dying and the dead body is of no use then. So the
present day scientists or philosophers are trying their best by discovering or
inventing new things to add in life that can make life happier and trying to
live for longer period, but these endeavors will all go in vain. No doubt that
one day man cam regain his youth but definitely not for eternity. I was into astanga yoga before. The yoga
instructor used to say if you practice kapalbhati for half an hours daily then
you will live hundred years or more and so on . So we hear all such things often
from doctors, yoga instructors to scientists. From such type of belief, does
not everybody then think of prolonging ones life? Definitely yes,living
lifelonger but for what ? l may live for 1000 of years or more due to some
invention or some siddhis but ultimately one day we have to leave. Because this
material world is designed in such a way that it is temporary and full of
miseries. BG 8.15. dukhalayam asasvatam. Therefore there is no possibility of
the eternality in this material world ,
one day sooner or later everything will come to an end . however eternity exists not in this material world
but in the spiritual world . so the idea in one sense desiring to
become immortal is correct but not by using the material technology rather
using the spiritual technology . And in this age ,the technology to overcome disease and death is chanting of the holy name
of the Lord. As the soul is immortal but
its real position comes only when we identify ourselves as the parts and
parcels of the supreme personality of Godhead
BG15.7. mamaivamso jiva-
loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah) The
part is to serve the part the whole so, similarly the livimg entity being the part and parcel
of the lord needs to serve the lord and revive his eternal by going back home
back to Godhead. The concept of eternity
definitely exists but not in our material sense prevention. So therefore one must seek
proper guidance from the bonafide spiritual master to seek knowledge that cuts
the knot of ignorance.
Reference
1, Bistrom , Nick (2005) . " A history of Transhumanist
thought " ( PDF) , Journal of
Evolution and Technology . Retrieved 2006 -02-21
2. Bhagavad Gia As It Is
3. Srimad Bhagavatam
Om Tat Sat
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The author holds a master degree in science, currently he is
serving as a youth preacher in VISA , ISKCON , Tripureshwor , Kathmandu, Nepal.
He often travels to many parts of Nepal presenting the vedic literatures to the
youths of Nepal.Source : Back To Godhead Magazine ,Nepal.
