"The pharaonic tombs and mummies of the ancient Egyptian civilization are the products of this religious ideology, they built the tombs for the pharaohs to make mummies, which is to keep the corpse intact, which is conducive to the reincarnation of the soul and the meaning of the next life form, in some philosophical and religious documents of ancient Tianzhu, the understanding of life and death and reincarnation is the most comprehensive, among which the ancient Vedic literature of the ancient Tianzhu period, the oldest "Rig Veda", which vividly and clearly interprets the detailed structure of the reincarnation mechanism, "Upanishads" and many other Sanskrit texts, which are more clearly stated. We can completely remove our own subjective color, to examine these ancient documents, what is the content of reincarnation expounded in the text, how to go to reincarnation, what is the core issue of life and death and reincarnation, in these issues we can think that the ancient Indian religious thinkers have indeed reached the same view of life and death and reincarnation, they regard the soul as the main core content of life and death and reincarnation, they believe that the essence of the soul is eternal and immortal, only changing the form between the shells of the body, looking for a place to live, they believe that all eternal matter is not created, if even if it is created, it is limited to the pastThe Vedic texts emphasize the eternity of the soul and make the depiction of the soul very material, even with its outward characteristics and images. ”

The Bhagavad Gita, on the other hand, emphasizes the immortality of the soul, in which the human body can die and disappear, but the soul is repeatedly placed in various shells. And in some of the current funerals in Tianzhu, these poems are still used to transcend the souls of the deceased, trying to lead the soul to the right path, in order to reincarnate and resolve sins, "It has no life, no death, existence, eternity, future, eternal life"......!

Wu Lang watched his father's every move blankly, there was no longer the shock in his heart just now, there was only reverence, and a little light flashed in his eyes......

The old man looked at Wu Lang with a smile: "Lang'er, remember all my words tonight, think about it slowly, explore, one day, you will understand." ”

Wu Lang nodded vigorously and did not speak.

The old man turned his head to look at the shining moon again, and after a long time, he said slowly: "The immortality, eternity and spirituality of the soul are the essence of the ancient Tianzhu religious culture. The soul has three qualities, namely, eternity, Conscious and blissful, the eternal soul is an enlightening special system, which can bring people happiness and spiritual satisfaction, let people perceive the world and their own consciousness cognition, and people want to let themselves live longer in the world or even immortalize, this is not only limited to spiritual animals, but also includes any extremely low-level microorganisms, all of which seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in adversity, and fight against the threat to life, when we realize that death is an unstoppable reality, in fact, the whole universe is still running as always, death is only the end of life, but the soul still exists in the universe forever。 People's desire for survival and the world is as eternal as the soul, which can explain why people have such a strong desire, in essence, the eternal soul is the core of the human body, and only those who have a soul will have the meaning of life, otherwise it is a shell of the walking dead, so the root of the desire for eternal life is to come to their own core ----- soul, people have different levels of spiritual needs and self-awareness, no matter what form of those sources, it is impossible to give vitality relative to a physical body。 All people instinctively pursue happiness and create their own value, in this regard, human beings are not alone, look at the behavior of animals in the natural world to know that they are also pursuing their own happiness, that is to say, the spiritual satisfaction that the body wants to obtain comes from the core ---- soul in the body. ”

"The connotation of the soul expounded in the Bhagavad Gita is not centered on human beings, but on the whole natural world of organisms as the object of description, between people, animals and plants, with self-consciousness as the dominant factor to find differences, but animals and plants have independent individuals, of course, they must also have independent soul subjects, but compared with human beings, they lack the ability to understand and comprehend abstract things, and lack self-consciousness and soul covering ability at the physical level, which is the difference between the soul subjects of human beings and other creatures. The Bhagavad Gita unifies the idea of all living beings, emphasizing that in the process of spiritual evolution, the death and disappearance of life are caused by events, and no matter how small and insignificant the life is, it is all moving forward in this evolution, so the idea of the unity of the soul determines the reincarnation of the soul, and the reincarnation of the human soul depends on the karma of the previous life, that is, the next life of the human being is likely to be a beast or any kind of creature. Both the Buddha and the Maha Vedas had this idea of reincarnation of the soul and their eventual liberation, and the process of reincarnation was vividly explained in their teachings, and they mentioned in their teachings that in order to soothe the souls that are trapped and afflicted physically and mentally, so that they can be liberated and helped by the Buddha's compassion, so as to end the suffering of samsara in the six realms. Although it has nothing to do with reincarnation, rebirth, freedom, and non-violence in the philosophical sense, it is inherently close to the concept. The scriptures describe that the human soul can be reborn as any other animal under the influence of "karma", and like other gods and demons except humans, the soul and "karma" are sent together into the heavenly path of the cycle of life and death until liberation. ”

"Dad, are these true?" Wu Lang couldn't help but ask.

"These things, you will naturally understand in the future, what is true, what is false, true and false, false and true, how many people in the world can really distinguish clearly?" the old man smiled.

Wu Lang nodded, looked at his father, and did not continue to ask.

The old man pondered for a moment, and then continued: "There is also a dogma of soul reincarnation in the belief systems of some religions, and the doctrine clearly states that all living beings have souls, and souls will go through different life forms until they are purified and can be liberated to walk with God. In some religions, there are 8.4 million species of living beings, and the soul must be reincarnated between them in order to be liberated. If you want to break this bondage, you must believe in the true God, and only those who have obtained the true God's point and understood the divine language can be saved, and the cycle of life and death will disappear. In the ancient Greek philosophical system, the idea of soul reincarnation originated from ancient Tianzhu, whether it was early Pythagoras or later Platonism, it was deeply influenced by the religious teachings of Tianzhu. Platonism holds that the soul originates from the divine realm, but because the gods have made mistakes and need to be punished, they must beat the soul into the flesh of mortal humans, and in order to get rid of this bondage, it is necessary to accept reincarnation and purify the soul. They compare the soul to two horses running black and white horse-drawn carriages, the black horse is full of energy and spirit but difficult to control, the white horse is full of spirit but gentle and easy to control, after the death of the soul will rise to a very beautiful place, where the gods preside over and watch, if the carriage is properly controlled, the soul will reach the divine realm to sit on an equal footing with them, if the carriage is not well controlled, the soul will be pulled into the heavenly path of reincarnation again, Plato described the divine realm as a pure land outside the world, there is no fraud and exploitation, there is no pain and sorrow, there is absolute fairness and justice, but it is strictly guarded by the gods。 ”

In ancient Greek philosophical thought, mental work and religious activities are all acts of purifying the soul, as long as you take practical actions, the afterlife will get a better reincarnation than before, this idea also reflects Platonism's intention to divide the social class, let their philosophical thinking realm reach the highest level, become the highest elite in society, Plato believes that he will eventually leave the world, as the best philosophical thinker, he can achieve the liberation of the soul in reincarnation, and eventually become a member of it with the gods。 He pointed out the seven incarnations of the soul of reincarnation, the poet is the highest class, followed by the peasants, and the lowest is the ruler, and he believes that animals also have classes, and in the reincarnation of the soul, the desire is too strong to control the carriage, and the next life will become an animal. ”

Wu Lang's brain quickly recorded his father's words, and he was constantly absorbing, digesting, and understanding the deep meaning.

"What happens to the soul when it dies? The question cannot be described in science, but it can be described in terms of religious philosophy. The question of how the soul travels after death has long been visualized in the ancient Vedic texts, describing that there are three stages in the journey of the soul after death, and these three stages are of course the process of reincarnation. At the end of the human body, the soul leaves the body, and the body is the vehicle that seals the soul, and the body is closely connected to the human mind, which is composed of spirit, wisdom and self-consciousness, that is, the soul, and consciousness or soul is independent of the first two, the first two can be regarded as part of the material world, but the soul consciousness is the link that is free from the material world, Bhagavad Gita, The artistic conception is to understand the cycle of death as three things, one is to regard the physical body as ----the material part of the external physical world, this part is the materialized body can be seen and felt, standing in the perspective of the unified theory, it can also be regarded as the natural world with primordial attributes, which is depicted as an active natural substance by definition; The mind and the body can be seen as a part of the spiritual entity and self-knowledge, and the third thing is the material ----- soul, which is not widely discussed under philosophical thought and theory, and the soul is the key embodiment of the whole cycle of death. ”

"The soul can be independent of the mind and the body, and the role of the spirit body in it is to help the soul and the body to connect with the outside world, and it is also a repository of all the information about the past of the body, and its existence makes people feel the meaning of actual existence. This relationship between the soul and the body just solves some mysterious and strange phenomena, and it is not difficult to understand the phenomena of near-death experiences or memories of past lives. There are many cases of near-death experiences in the world, and there are often some unconscious people in medicine, who accurately perceive what is happening around them in a near-death state, and from a scientific point of view, a person who can accurately perceive anything in a medical clinical brain death state cannot exist at all, but this is not the case in reality, if from this point of view, people who have near-death experiences are regarded as consciousness and spiritual bodies, which have always existed in the physical body, and when the physical body enters the state of death, consciousness (soul) will begin to detach from the spiritual body and transmit to the brain, and then from the brain to the external world to obtain perceptual effects。 Although the brain closes the physical visual area during the death phase due to the loss of consciousness (soul) and the inability of the eye to function normally, the consciousness (soul) itself is still awake, the visual and spiritual sensory areas are still active, and the soul and spirit body temporarily leave the body and enter the surrounding space, and there are some more extreme cases, including the perception of the scene in the context of the near-death experience of a blind person, which can also be explained by this. ”

However, for some of the more extreme cases in science, such as some children can remember things from past lives, and some people and things that have passed away can be accurately named. This kind of phenomenon can be interpreted as that after the soul and spirit body leave the dead body, the memory is not limited to staying in the physical brain, but also stored in the spirit of the spirit body, and the spirit carries the information of the past life with the soul, and theoretically the information of the past life will be obtained by the next life, but because the different levels of each person's spirit body will have different levels of information hidden in the depths, not everyone can perceive the existence of the information of the past life in the next life, and only a very small number of people can perceive the information and be obtained by the brain. There is a description of the soul travel in the literature, the soul will be sealed in the spirit body from the moment the soul leaves the body after death, how to ideally break the seal and leave the spirit body depends on the energy field of the self, usually the soul of people with a strong energy field will leave from the top of the head and rise, and the people with a strong energy field are people whose souls have been purified in the reincarnation of previous lives. The passage of the soul ascending is divided into multiple cosmic dimensions, the soul that goes out of the body from the top of the head can enter the high-dimensional world, which is the Pure Land paradise watched by the gods, while the soul that runs out of other parts of the body will fall, the lower-dimensional space that descends is mortals and various creatures, and the soul is determined by the merit and karma of the previous life when choosing the body of reincarnation, and the next life can be an animal or a plant, and can become a ghost or a demon. ”

"Although the principle of the reincarnation mechanism determines the destination or goal of the next reincarnation of the soul, there is also the possibility that the soul cannot realize reincarnation and is interrupted halfway, such as those victim souls who commit suicide or die unexpectedly because of extreme events, due to the soul out of the body against the will of the self and the collapse of the spirit body, at this time the soul is in a state of nothingness, it will break the mechanism of reincarnation, and rush to find a temporary life form as a hiding place, then there will be the phenomenon of ghost possession. When the soul reaches the next goal of life under the principle of reincarnation mechanism, it is equivalent to reincarnation taking off the shell and replacing it with a new shell that is endowed with the meaning of life, as if it is because of the will of the self, liking the clothes of that color and style, and then changing into a new shell to complete the reincarnation. When the soul finds its goal and completes the reincarnation, all the meanings change after entering the new life form, this is because the human body allows the soul to express any free will, the human body can make the consciousness rise from the material level to the spiritual level, and this ability of human beings can allow the soul to escape from reincarnation and enter the level of eternal life. The secret of life, death and reincarnation is not only a topic of religious philosophy, but also can be endowed with scientific significance, death and transcendence can dissolve the mundane, rebirth and eternal life can seek the ultimate destination, and from the moment when the body is finally liberated from the cognitively poor physical shell, the soul is loaded with the knowledge of the past life and embarks on the path of hope for the future, from which it obtains the beauty and truth of eternal meaning. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he stopped talking and stared at the full moon for a long time, as if reminiscing about the past......

Wu Lang didn't bother his father, and turned his head to look at Haoyue: it was so big, so round, he felt close to it, but he couldn't touch it, he could only look at it from afar, this is similar to the distance between people, some people get along all their lives, but they can never touch her inner world, although some people have not been in contact for a long time, they are very familiar, as if they met in the past life, and see you again in this life, it is a spiritual feeling that cannot be described in words......

Human beings continue to carry out self-realization in the long river of history, and now, our material living standards have reached an unprecedented height, but what follows is not a comprehensive happy civilization of human beings.

The door to humanity's awakening has been opened, and the path of exploration for all mankind will inevitably turn from the outside to the inside, and this transformation will also lead us to the most important stage in human history. For the individual, the awakening of the heart marks the full arrival of a happy life for the individual, with no or minimal inner conflict, and will allow the individual to enjoy true peace and joy.