Are We Immortal?

by Dr. Dharmdeo N. Singh


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 06/07/2015

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 114
ISBN : 9781503516007

About the Book

The answer is yes. Am I body or soul? When we say, it is my body, it is my hand, it is my car or it is my house, etc., it means that I own these things (including my body). So I cannot be these things. So I am soul—when the soul gets out of the body at the time of death, although all its parts are present but nonfunctional. Whole body is either cremated or buried, which eventually disintegrates. Some of us believe in reincarnation or rebirth. Dr. Ian Stevenson of the Department of Psychology and Neurology, University of Virginia, has studied three thousand cases as of 1987 from all parts of the world. Each one of them said, “I remember my previous life,” and verified by Dr. Stevenson and published. (Refer it in my chapter “Rebirth,” Chapter “Characteristics of soul.”) It is self-exemplified and other quotations from Hindu scriptures. The soul, to begin with, was pure as 24-carat gold. But after when it gets in the body of living beings and especially human body, it becomes impure due to good and bad actions (karma). Then it needs to be pure again in order to be immortal. For this it needs God’s grace, prayer, meditation, and other means to mingle with God as water of Rivers merge with water of sea and become salty water as of the sea.


About the Author

Dr. Dharmdeo N. Singh has earned doctorate degree from the University of London in cytogenetic. After teaching at Patna University, Bihar, India, for a few years, he was invited by Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, on Sessile Fellowship for Research. After thirty-three years of teaching and research in the USA, he retired from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, as professor and director of Medical Genetic, Department of Pediatrics, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 1996. He then returned to Patna, India, to promote human genetics. He joined the Indra Gandhi Institute of Medical Science as a professor and head of the department of Medical Genetics. Dr. Singh has published more than two hundred research papers on cytogenetic and molecular genetics of humans, animals, and plants. He has also published four books of genetics and has contributed chapters of about a dozen books. For his scholarly pursuit, Dr. Singh has received numerous recognitions from national and international bodies. He has also served on the editorial board of many national and International Journals. After retirement, Dr. Singh published three books on Hinduism: (1) Basic Concepts of Hinduism, (2) A Study of Hinduism, and (3) Bhagavad Gita: An Art of Living.