LIFE AFTER DEATH
Signs to Understand
GANDHI JAYANTI is celebrated in India on 2nd October, to mark the occasion of the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the “Father of the Nation”. The United Nations General Assembly has also adopted a resolution declaring 2nd October to be celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in January-1948 but his message of peace and non-violence lives on. Gandhiji’s recorded speeches are available online even today and anyone wishing to listen to Mahatma Gandhi can easily download them from the internet and listen to them as though Gandhiji were speaking directly to them today. By this means it is possible to “be in contact” with the Mahatma.
Man leaves this world, but his voice survives. Man dies but his voice lives on after him. This fact is indicative of the reality that man’s personality is a continuum. It remains in the ‘living’ state long after he has expired. This is what is apparently alluded to in this verse of the Quran which mentions the last Day and the life after death: that this is true, as true as you are speaking now. (51: 23)
The existence of the human voice after death makes the continuance of the whole human personality after death a more understandable concept.
In the form of the voice, a man’s personality continues to survive in part. We directly witness this happening. Now, when it is known that the human personality continues to live in part after death, it is not difficult to understand that the human personality can also continue to exist in its entirety. The knowledge of one makes the other more easily understandable.
Once the existence of a part is proved, the existence of the whole is proved by itself. The existence of the human voice after death makes the continuance of the whole human personality after death, a more understandable concept.
Our being able to hear now the voice of a person who expired in 1948 confirms that person is still living today, even though he is not visible to us.