
Spiritism, seance and the testimony of recognised mediums have for most part featured prominently in all such works. It has mostly been the study of the conditions in the Pretaloka which is merely one among the numerous supramundane planes beyond the grave. Many books have been written on this subject, but hitherto most of the works deal mainly with the astral or other spirit world. Rhine, has expressed himself in favour of such belief. The fact of continuity of consciousness after physical death has come to be accepted as such by most of the modern thinkers, latest of whom, the famous scientist, Dr. This had led to a lot of research work too. In recent times there has been much speculation on this problem. Man has always been intrigued by the question, “What becomes of the Soul after Death?” The present volume, as the title suggests, treats in detail of the subject and furnishes an answer to the agelong question. The problem of life beyond death has ever been a most fascinating one from time immemorial.

Lead a life of selfless service, renunciation, dispassion, prayer and meditation. He is the end of all Sadhanas, Yoga practices. There is a living, unchanging, eternal Consciousness that underlies all names and forms. Mridula’s Revelations Of Her Last Birth.A Well-Known Case Of Rebirth–Shanti Devi.Strange Case Of Transmigration Of A Soul.Linga-Sarira Survives Death Of Physical Body.Why Scriptures Are Read To A Dying Man?.Schopenhauer’s Views On The ‘After-Death State’.What Does The Gita Say On Life After Death.By this more explicit separation of the intellectual and ethical activities from the physiological the conception of the mental or psychical (in the modern sense) was at length reached.OM DEDICATED TO LORD YAMA, MARKANDEYA, NACHIKETAS, They are the more universal, the more divine, the ethically purer. In the Jewish-Alexandrine Pauline, and Neo-Platonist psychology, the psyche is in general treated as the animating principle in close relation to the body, whereas the pneuma (as representing the divine breath breathed into man), the nous, and the Logos (q.v.) stand for higher entities. Thus in Biblical use the Greek word was "the soul as the seat of feelings, desires, affections, etc.," also "the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life," and "the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death." In English, the meaning "human soul" is from 1650s the psychological sense of "mind" is attested by 1910. The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Also in ancient Greek, "departed soul, spirit, ghost," seen as a winged creature and often represented symbolically as a butterfly or moth.

Personified by the Greeks as Psykhē, the beloved of Eros, often represented as a fair young girl the butterfly was her symbol. Beekes finds this tempting but not convincing and doubts the existence of the PIE verb based on scant evidence. These are sometimes traced to a PIE root *bhes- "to blow, to breathe" (source also of Sanskrit bhas-), "Probably imitative". 1640s, "animating spirit, the human spirit or mind," from Latin psyche, from Greek psykhē "the soul, mind, spirit life, one's life, the invisible animating principle or entity which occupies and directs the physical body understanding, the mind (as the seat of thought), faculty of reason," also "ghost, spirit of a dead person " probably akin to psykhein "to blow, breathe," also "to cool, to make dry."
