Most theists believe in an afterlife of some sort. But is it possible to live forever? We have no experience of that in this world. Everything comes to an end, including every body.
Yet, mundane science textbooks surprisingly declare a truth about matter. According to the law of conservation, it is neither created nor destroyed. This coincides with Krishna's description in Bhagavad gita of material nature as "My divine energy".
So in the sense that everything is ultimately Krishna, everything emanates from He who is fully spiritual, His material creation can be correctly understood as also divine. It appears to have been created, but it has always existed as does Krishna, as one of His multifarious energies.
Divine means eternal. It is not a linear creation with a beginning and end as in the the Judeo Christian conception because if God is actually eternal and spiritual, as most theists say they believe, and which is the proper understanding of God, then how can anything related to the Lord exist only once? Matter goes on perpetually in cycles either in a manifest or unmanifest state. A huge skyscraper worn away by time eventually returns to the earth. It can be broken down to its very atoms, but those atoms continue to exist and are shaped once again in another form. Thus everything is ultimately spiritual, the external material nature just behaves differently, by repeated appearance and disappearance.
From a logical viewpoint, therefore, if matter ultimately has no beginning nor end, it's easier to comprehend the individual self or the spiritual nature, as clearly described by Lord Krishna in the second chapter of Bhagavad gita to be eternal. We must also continue to exist in some shape or form after the demise of the material body. And if we wish to get free from the cycle of birth and death due to identification of the temporary body, we must take shelter of the transcendental Lord, who is forever unaffected by the waves of time.
Yet, mundane science textbooks surprisingly declare a truth about matter. According to the law of conservation, it is neither created nor destroyed. This coincides with Krishna's description in Bhagavad gita of material nature as "My divine energy".
So in the sense that everything is ultimately Krishna, everything emanates from He who is fully spiritual, His material creation can be correctly understood as also divine. It appears to have been created, but it has always existed as does Krishna, as one of His multifarious energies.
Divine means eternal. It is not a linear creation with a beginning and end as in the the Judeo Christian conception because if God is actually eternal and spiritual, as most theists say they believe, and which is the proper understanding of God, then how can anything related to the Lord exist only once? Matter goes on perpetually in cycles either in a manifest or unmanifest state. A huge skyscraper worn away by time eventually returns to the earth. It can be broken down to its very atoms, but those atoms continue to exist and are shaped once again in another form. Thus everything is ultimately spiritual, the external material nature just behaves differently, by repeated appearance and disappearance.
From a logical viewpoint, therefore, if matter ultimately has no beginning nor end, it's easier to comprehend the individual self or the spiritual nature, as clearly described by Lord Krishna in the second chapter of Bhagavad gita to be eternal. We must also continue to exist in some shape or form after the demise of the material body. And if we wish to get free from the cycle of birth and death due to identification of the temporary body, we must take shelter of the transcendental Lord, who is forever unaffected by the waves of time.
