The physical body undergoes the following six changes:
1. Asti (it comes into existence)
2. Jāyate (it is born)
3. Vardhati (it grows)
4. Vipariṇāmate (it matures)
5. Apakṣiyate (it declines or decays)
6. Nāsyati (it dies)
The self however, does not undergo such changes. The inherent nature of the self is that it is sat (सत्), which means it is unchanging, permanent and eternal. It exists prior the physical body coming into being (asti), and it continues to exist after the death of the body (nāsyati)
Unlike the self, the mind is also always changing,
'Changing and unchanging' is one of five logical arguments, or 'pointers', used to show that the conscious self is different from the body and mind. The other four pointers are explained in another video, which I'll post below.
RE-INCARNA-TION.
The word 'carne', which is Spanish for 'meat', comes from the Latin word 'carnis', meaning 'flesh'. From this Latin root we get 'reincarnation'. The prefix 're', means 'again', or 'once more'. So 'reincarnation' literally means 'in the flesh, again', or 'in the flesh once more'.
And while some will doubt that we can continue to exist in different bodies, is this not what happens even in this one life?
Are we not the same, unchanging 'I' which exists in the different bodies of a baby, a child, a teenager, an adult, and finally of an old person?
Then comes death, which is the final change of body in this life. And after this, the process just continues, but with a new body.
This is reincarnation.
Негізгі бет Swami Sarvapriyananda: The Unchanging Self and the Changing Body.
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