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consciousness knows its own emergence and extinction, it would amount to begging the question. It turns out to admitting that consciousness knows its own emergence and extinction. It is anomalous to say so; it's verbal aberration. To say that the soul knows its emergence and extinction and yet it does not last is analogous to someone stating that he has no tongue. Just think about the validity of such statement."
Jenä Anubhav Vashya E, Utpanna Layanun Inän; Te Tethi Judä Vinä, Thäy Na Keme Bhän.
The knowledge of such emergence and extinction can in no way arise, unless the agency experiencing that knowledge is different from the object. (63)
Explanation & Discussion:
After explaining that the body cannot know the emergence and extinction of soul, the Guru asks the pupil to consider who can know it. It can be stated as a matter of principle that the agency, which knows the emergence and extinction of an object, must be different from the object. It is therefore clear that only a substance, other than the soul, can experience the emergence and extinction of soul.
This concept may seem a little abstract. Let us therefore explain it with an illustration. Suppose the birth or death of a person is to be known. In that case, is it possible for that person to know his own birth or death? Obviously not; only some one else can know that the person has come into being or that he has come to the end.
If soul emerges with the body and disappears with its death, as it has been argued, the question would be: 'Who knows about such emergence and extinction? It was explained above that the inanimate body is not capable of knowing anything and only the soul (consciousness) has the property of knowing. Further, there is no other agency that can know about it. Hence to contend the soul's emergence or extinction turns out to be merely imaginary. There cannot thus be emergence or extinction of soul; it is everlasting.
Je Sanyogo Dekhie, Te Te Anubhav Drashya; Upaje Nahin Sanyogathi, Ätmä Nitya Pratyaksha.
Whatever compositions that we notice can come to the experiential level; no composition can bring out the evidently everlasting soul. (64)
Explanation & Discussion:
After explaining that there is no agency to witness the emergence of soul, the Guru suggests to examine the compositions that we come across and find out whether there can be any composition that can turn out the soul. With all the scientific developments and inventions at our command, no one has brought out such a composition.
With the advent of cloning some people think that it is now possible to create life. But what cloning technique has done is to find out a new mode of turning out the bodies, in which the souls can dwell. Such bodies are normally generated by cellular division or by fertilization of female egg with male sperm. Cloning merely provides a new technique, in which the male role in the process of procreation can be eliminated. That
