Alright now, I know I'm simply being weird but can't help sharing it. Last few days have witnessed my struggle to find a few answers. I don't know if I have the questions framed correctly, I don't even know if they are legitimate questions, let alone knowing where to look for the answers. They sound so cliche, honestly. They are the questions that have always driven people to either create the greatest or destroy them. Its the age-old question of Soul vs Body.
Hindu mythology, as advocated in Bhagvad Gita, believes in the Immortal Soul. It talks about how the Soul cannot be created, nor destroyed. It can't be hurt. It only takes a body, which is otherwise lifeless. It is just like people wear new clothes and discard the old clothes when the time comes. So far, so good!
First thought around this came to me a few months ago, it was about 'Knowledge'. Who possesses it? Who holds the Knowledge? The Soul or the Body? Thinking of the Body analogous to the clothes we wear, I'm inclined to think of Knowledge as the embellishments that enriches our look. Or is that a popssibility that the Knowledge is an asset of the Soul instead? If that is the case, the Soul should have the knowledge accumulated in all its previous lives, all that it has learnt since eternity. But do we see an infant and say "Oh! Look at how wisely this baby talks."? The learning cycle of a baby (human or any other animal) starts afresh, always. So I find myself believing that the Knowledge resides in the Body, the Brain and its infinite nueronal synapses. It keeps developing while we're living, it dies with us. So it is mortal. Now I'm not saying the Knowledge as such is mortal, I'm just saying that the Knowledge a person possesses is mortal. If that is the case, why does one seek knowledge, knowing that it is only as ephemeral as oneself? Thoughts?
And today, I asked myself another question - about Satisfaction of the Soul. Is it really a thing? Can a soul be satisfied or dissatisfied? I tend to believe that it is the body we are talking about here, not soul. Gita also tells us that soul does not, cannot feel anything. It does not feel happiness, does not get sad, goes not get mad over anything, does not feel ecstasy, not love, not hatred. Feeling is something stimulated by our sensory organs, that means the body. But spirituality and meditation are said to satisfy (or calm, if you will) our 'soul'. Or should it be our 'senses'? Thoughts?
So if it is pointless to make any efforts to gain knowledge (because it gets burned away or buried with the one who posseses it) and it is equally worthless to go down the path of spiritualism (because it does not affect our sou in any way we can feel), then why pursue anything? Anything except accumulating material wealth and indulging ourselves as long as the body can perceive pleasure? At least it can feel.