Questions that the Vedas answer better than science

When we start observing other people, as well as nature, we can find many proofs of the existence of the soul and the existence of God. Skeptics need a lot of faith to ignore all these signals.

One phenomenon that scientists and skeptics in general have trouble explaining is how people can have memories from past lives, like in cases where small children remember details from past lives that they could not know otherwise (like names and even addresses of previous relatives, as well as information about them that is not publicly available). In a famous case, a small girl from India could not only remember her previous family but could (with the help of a teacher) find her previous house and make her previous husband believe that she was indeed his diseased wife by recounting intimate details of how they conceived their last children in her previous body.

Similarly, people often see vivid remembrances of events of their past lives in sessions of past life regression therapy, especially violent scenes of previous deaths that were deeply impressed in their consciousness and often are the key to treating traumas and mental issues that one is experiencing now. Sometimes people can even bring with them skills from past lives, resulting in the ability to play piano from a very early age, or learn multiple languages with extreme facility, supposedly because one was speaking them in past lives.

The possibility of one bringing any information from past lives is something that seriously undermines many ideas that are nowadays universally accepted in scientific circles. If people indeed are capable of bringing with them memories from past lives, it would imply the fact that humans are actually immortal metaphysical beings that transmigrate from one body to another, forcing the whole scientific community to radically change its view of the world and adjust its theories accordingly.

This also indicates that memories are not just stored in the brain, as currently believed, but in the subtle body that the soul carries from one body to another, to which the brain is merely an interface. Such a subtle body is described in the Vedas in detail, but modern science knows practically nothing about it.

Many dismiss such events as just fraud or imagination. Others argue that memories brought back by past life regression therapy could be somehow memories embedded in the DNA that were somehow inherited from ancestors. However, this is a very weak argument, since the DNA contains sequences for the codification of proteins, and not information that could be translated into memories stored in the brain. It further loses weight when we consider that many of the rescued memories reflect events that happened right before one's death, a point where one would not have the chance of passing one’s DNA to descendants.

There is also another point, which is "instinct". Many animals display rather complex sets of behavior that can't be easily explained by just genetics. Beavers, for example, build complex dams that they use as a natural protection for their nests, which are themselves extremely elaborate. Beavers are nature's engineers, we could say. The point is that beavers don't study at the university. They also don't learn from their parents, since when they are born, the dam and the nest are already built. However, when they grow up and find a partner, they start building their own dams and nests, without ever having learned to do so. Apart from beavers, there are other animals (especially birds) that also construct complex nests, even without ever learning how to do it.

In scientific circles, this is usually explained in terms of natural selection. Beavers make dams and nests in the same way simply because all the beavers that didn't do so didn't survive to pass their genes to the next generations. It's again not a very sound explanation, since it fails to explain where the knowledge comes from in the first place.

The Vedas, however, give a different explanation: different animals, as well as human beings, are not guided by "instinct" but by the Supersoul inside their hearts. The Supersoul reveals to the different living entities the knowledge they need to survive, according to their karma. Thanks to the guidance of the Supersoul, animals are capable of finding food and shelter, displaying skills that they never learned.

When we start observing other people, as well as nature, we can find many proofs of the existence of the soul and the existence of God. Skeptics actually need a lot of faith to ignore all these signals and instead believe in a world where everything happens by chance.

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