LIFE AFTER DEATH

~ 17 ~ that this ten-year old contract was your own and continue to abide by it. This is that inward humanbeing at work which, far from altering with bodily transformation, survives countless physical changes absolutely intact. This proves that the word “homo sapiens”, rather than being a label attached to a certain physical form, which is erased with its death, is a separate entity which remains intact even after the diffusion of the body’s composite parts. The fact that the body alters whereas the soul does not, is conclusive proof of the transitional nature of the body and the eternal nature of the soul. Some misguided people consider life and death to be the accumulation and subsequent diffusion of multitudinous particles of matter. This theory has been expounded by an Urdu poet, Chakbast, in the following words: What is life? Elements arranging themselves in order, And death? Their diffusion.’ This, however, is a statement which is not borne out by fact. If life were simply “elements arranging