What is life? You must have seen a flowering tree surely. Every day you see the plant; it has flowers blooming, all over. Next day, new flowers again, blooming on it. Following day, new flowers, replace the fallen ones. The old flowers fall off and die, and in its place new ones bloom up. The flowers are dying constantly, but the tree lives on, sometimes for hundred years.
Water and gases react with one another and we have life. When oxygen, water and sunlight interact, we have life. Basically all life is microscopic, very tiny cells, and bacteria. In human beings, trillions of cells combine together, to create an organ. Then many organs combine together, to create creations, life like insects, worms, animals, birds and humans.
These microscopic cells have infinite intelligence and wisdom of their own. It is called innate intelligence. They have a very short life span like the flowers; say 24 hours to 48 hours. In this short period they work very hard, perform their jobs, give birth to new ones, train them as per ISO 9000 standards and die finally. This is the way life continues. It is like a relay race. Life is transferred from one dying cell to next new cell.
Our human bodies are made up of hundreds of different types of cells: liver cells, brain cells, heart cells, bone cells, skin cells. In every organ at any point of time millions of cells are dying and the exact same number of new cells is being born, anew. In other words, our body resembles a graveyard, or a battlefield to be more precise. This implies that there is an extreme urgency, to get rid of the dead cells, quickly or else they will decay and become toxic, like the dead bodies in a battle field. Thus there exists a very fine balance which has to be maintained in every category, of our organs. What does this explain? It goes to show that, in a very short period the whole organ is replaced by brand new cells, and this is an ongoing process i.e. 24/7, for as long as you live. Therefore, the physical body has NO EXPIRY date.
The anatomical structure is so wonderful, that it resembles a miracle in action. Let me ask you a dumb question at this stage. How old is your body? Mind you, I am not asking your age. It is, believe me, very young, brand new. If the body, your hardware, is brand new, then what constitutes your age. It is your soft ware, memory, education, thinking patterns, beliefs, convictions, and superstitions, brought forward of course. The outer covers are old and ancient while the inner core is always brand new.
They are as old as your age, in terms of years, on this planet. The next obvious question would be where is the disease? When the body is brand new, then exactly, where, is the disease? Logically speaking, there should be no disease, at all, ever. The fact is just the opposite. Let us reframe the question more accurately. Where is the cause of the disease? Yes that is better. The cause of our disease is in the mind, your mind, of erroneous education, thinking patterns, beliefs and convictions.
Coming back to the delicate balance, of cell death and growth, we have two ways, in which this balance can be upset or disturbed. First case is, more cells dying, leading to organ shrinkage. Second case is, less cells dying, leading to organ enlargement. In both cases you have to die. When cells die in balanced fashion, we live. On the contrary, when cells live on, or learn not to die, then we die. You see the point. At cellular level, death is very important and most essential, for us to live on, for life to go on. Death is happening within us every second, yet we are mortally afraid of dying. This fear sometimes snow balls into mental conditions.
We are carrying a miniature graveyard inside us and yet we dread the inevitable, our short journey to the earthly graveyard, and our final home for this perishable body.
Let us elaborate the point fully. We will take a peek, of what is going inside your body. You go to the barber and have a haircut. After three months, you have to visit him again. New hairs have come up, in a matter of three months. You cut your nails by one centimeter today. After one week you got to cut them again. In five weeks you have a complete new nail.
When you nick yourself with a kitchen knife, what happens? The wound heals itself, in a couple of days. New skin grows over the cut. What do you collect when you vacuum your house? Dust! NO! It is your dead skin particles. New skin is replacing your outer covering, of the body.
Taking a queue, from above, if all this is happening on the outside, then, what is going on inside the body? Obviously, the same phenomenon is taking place. All the organs are being replaced too. When you are involved in a car accident and break a couple of bones, what happens then? You are put in a cast, for three to six months and the broken bones grow back again, solid as a rock.
NEW PARADIGM:
Our body is capable of transmuting everything it needs from anything you consume. Our body manufactures soft bees wax for the ears, hard enamel for the teeth, tough nails for the fingers, complex acids, enzymes, bile, for the stomach, and super sensitive hormones for our multiple explosive moods.
We do not consume any of the above stuff, yet the body produces them for our survival. It keeps our mouth and eyes moist all the time, provides a continuous electrical charge to the heart muscles to keep on pumping without stopping, automatically shunts and reroutes blood, from one area to another where it is needed most.
It gives us specific signals to start eating food, drinking water, and go off to sleep and shut down temporarily. Our body is programmed for auto pilot and we do not know about it.
Nature too is highly capable of transmuting everything from one common raw material the soil, the good earth. We have, by top soil’s grace, hundreds of fruits, vegetables, herbs, trees, forests and flowers for our enjoyment and consumption.
One stupid looking dirt and clay like feeling mud, produces sweet dates, juicy cane sugar, wine grapes, sour lemons, delicious pineapples, tangy oranges, bitter gourds, spicy chilies and liquorish fennel. By employing techniques of grafting and transplanting we have successfully grown as many as 250 varieties of mangoes on one single tree. We are so successful in negating nature that today we grow and consume most fruits without seeds in them. The era of seedless crops is here to stay. How is this planet going to sustain itself is beyond my comprehension?
Cows consume ordinary inert stuff labeled as grass, and produce copious amounts of rich fluid like milk, which has butter, calcium, yogurt, cheeses, and cream. This is nature’s magical transmutation.
Rohit Khanna is the author of the book -- Magic Of The Mind & Miracle Of The Body. This article has been taken from his book.