Category:Annihilation of the Material Body
Theme Analysis
The material body is temporary, but the soul remains eternal beyond bodily annihilation. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that death is the destruction of the external covering, not the destruction of the living being. The Bhagavad-gītā principle na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre teaches that the soul continues, transmigrates, and can attain spiritual perfection when properly educated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Eternal Soul: The soul is never destroyed when the body is annihilated. This truth is the foundation of spiritual knowledge and frees one from bodily fear.
- Changing Bodies: Bodily annihilation means the soul leaves one external dress and accepts another according to nature's laws. The change from childhood to youth and old age already shows this principle within one lifetime.
- Material Loss: Wealth, mundane knowledge, and bodily achievements are vanquished with the body. Spiritual consciousness and devotional service, however, are not lost when the body is destroyed.
- Spiritual Goal: If every material body must be annihilated, the intelligent person seeks a spiritual body and eternal service. Kṛṣṇa consciousness prepares the soul for that nonmaterial destination.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Annihilation of the Material Body Does Not Destroy the Eternal Soul.
Pages in category "Annihilation of the Material Body"
The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
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- A ksatriya is bound to fight for the right cause, regardless of the opposite party. In such discharge of duty, one should not be disturbed by annihilation of the material body, which is only an external dress of the living soul
- Annihilation applies to the body, but the spirit soul transmigrates from one body to another. If this were not the case, how can so many multifarious bodies come into existence
- Anything that is material or mundane - be it acquisition of knowledge or of wealth - is vanquished along with the annihilation of the material body
- As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, na hanyate hanyamane sarire: (BG 2.20) the living entity never dies, even after the death or annihilation of this material body
- As he is changing different types of body during this duration of life, similarly, after this annihilation of this body, just like old garment or old shirt cannot be used - it is thrown away; another new shirt is taken - the soul accepts another body
- As soon as the individual living entity leaves the material body, the body is immediately annihilated, and similarly as soon as Lord Visnu leaves the cosmic manifestation, everything is annihilated
- As spirit is not annihilated even after the annihilation of the material body, so also spiritual consciousness is not annihilated
- As this body will die, so the entire universe, this gigantic material body, will be annihilated, and whether we are fortunate or unfortunate, on this planet or another planet, everything will be finished
B
- Because I am eternal, I do not want my body be annihilated. But it will be. Therefore I am always fearful, "When it will be annihilated? When it will be annihilated? Is the time come? Is the time come?" This is called bhayam
- Both the universal body and the small unit, the individual living entity's body, are susceptible to annihilation at the ultimate end
D
- Death means that unconsciousness for a long period. Because the soul is eternal. It will be explained. There is no birth and death. So when this body is annihilated, so the soul remains unconscious for a period, seven months for a human being
- During one lifetime, a materialist engages in acquiring land, money, friends, society, friendship, love and so on. He also wants to enjoy the heavenly planets after the annihilation of the body
E
- Either there is soul or not soul, just like Darwin's theory, evolution of material body is going on. One body is created and the same body again annihilated, another body created, the same body annihilated, and it is going on. You cannot stop this process
- Existence continues, but if we positively want to annihilate the material body, we have to accept a spiritual body; otherwise there can be no eternality for the soul
F
- For the purpose of creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation, there are three lords - Brahma, Visnu and Siva (Mahesvara). The material body is finished at the time of annihilation
- From the Bhagavad-gita it is understood that one does not die with the annihilation of his body. The annihilation of one body involves changing to another
I
- If all material bodies are doomed to annihilation, we must obtain a nonmaterial body, or a spiritual body, if we wish the next birth to be anything but false. How the spiritual body is attained is explained by Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita - BG 4.9
- If somebody comes and drives us out of this room, that does not mean I am finished. I shall go and take shelter of another room. Similarly, when the soul, when the body is killed or annihilated by nature or by force, the soul takes shelter of another body
- If you argue that "What is the harm if I kill one animal, because it is said, na hanyate hanyamane sarire (BG 2.20): 'The living entity, soul, is never killed even after the annihilation of this body'?" that is all right. But you cannot force him
- In the second chapter of Bhagavad-gita, the Personality of Godhead explains this fact elaborately: Although this material body is subject to annihilation, the proprietor of the body is eternal
- It is a false claim that after the annihilation of this body everything is finished. BG 1972 purports
- It is difficult, however, for the conditioned soul to enter another body unless the present dead body is annihilated through cremation or some other means
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N
- Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (2.20), there is neither birth nor death for the soul. The soul is not destroyed when the body is annihilated
- Na hanyate hanyamane sarire: (BG 2.20) He does not die, even after the annihilation of the body. Thus the living entity transmigrates from one body to another and performs various activities
- Nityo sasvato yam na jayate na mriyate va kadacit. The soul is eternal. Soul is eternal and soul does not take birth. The body, we get a new body, that is called birth. And when this body is annihilated, that is called death
- No living entity is originally formless, as is wrongly thought by those with a poor fund of knowledge. This mantra verifies the fact that the living entity exists after the annihilation of the material body
O
- O scion of Bharata, knowing this eternal truth (that no one can destroy the eternal, ever-existing spirit soul. Although this material body is subject to annihilation, the proprietor of the body is eternal), you can go on with your fighting engagement
- On the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, Arjuna said to Krsna, - Whatever You are saying is all right. I am not this body. I am a soul, and this is also true of everyone else. So when the body is annihilated, the soul will continue to exist
- One should not be disturbed by annihilation of the material body, which is only an external dress of the living soul. All this was perfectly known to Maharaja Yudhisthira, but by the will of the Lord he became just like a common man
T
- That is a factual law of nature. It (material body) is manifested and again annihilated, just as waves in the sea rise frequently and then recede. The materialist, however, is simply concerned with this mortal life, which can be finished at any moment
- The birth, death, old age and disease are the inconveniences of the body. The spirit soul has no birth, no death, no old age and no disease, neither the spirit soul is annihilated after the destruction of this body. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire
- The men of the present day are almost unaware of their spiritual identity. They think that they are products of the elements of the material world and that everything will end with the annihilation of the body
- The soul is eternal, everlasting, and primeval (nityah sasvato 'yam purano). The soul does not die with the annihilation of the body (na hanyate hanyamane sarire) - BG 2.20
- The spirit soul is never born, nor can he ever die. He has no past, present, or future, because he is eternal. And although very old, he is always fresh and does not become annihilated even after the annihilation of the body
- The spiritual nature is eternal, and even when all the material universes are destroyed, the planets in the spiritual world abide. They remain exactly as the spirit soul remains even after the annihilation of the material body
- There is a time for the annihilation of the body of the human being, and there is a time for the annihilation of the universal body. Also, growth, development and resultant actions all depend on the time factor
- These things do not strike even their dull brain, that - If atma. . . I am atma. I am the soul. I do not die even after the annihilation of this body
- This body is to be annihilated, but I am not to be annihilated. Nityasyoktahsaririnah. Saririnah means "one who possesses." He is nitya
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- We are all eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. We are not lost or dead on account of our annihilation of this body. That is not possible
- We existed in the past in different bodies, and after the annihilation of this body we shall exist in another body
- When Lord Siva was engaged in severely austere meditation, Cupid, the demigod of lust, threw his arrow of sex desire. Lord Siva, thus being angry at him, glanced at Cupid in great wrath, and at once the body of Cupid was annihilated
- When Sati annihilated her body in anger, there was a tumultuous roar all over the universe. Why had Sati, the wife of the most respectable demigod, Lord Siva, quit her body in such a manner?