The Purpose of Life and Transmigration
Dr. Ankush Mittal
Why is this world created?
Who am I?
What’s my role in the world?
What gives me meaning?
Everything that he
gained is left
behind!
Where are
you going?
Empirical evidence of afterlife
• Near Death Experience and Out of body experience
• Past life memories
• Past life regression
• Astrology
• Child prodigies (including spiritual prodigies)
Near Death
Experience
Studies:
Cases like heart
attack, when the
person should
be unconscious
but recalls finer
details of
happenings
Rare brain surgery but
patient could see and hear
• American singer-songwriter
Pamela Reynolds Lowery had
a a large aneurysm on her
brain that was at risk of
rupturing.
• As a last resort, Dr Robert F.
Spetzler offered to perform a
rare procedure known as
hypothermic cardiac arrest on
Pam, which was a more
successful-looking option.
Details of surgery
• The surgery involved lowering
her body temperature to 10
degrees, taping her eyes shut
and placing small earplugs
with speakers in her ears.
These speakers would emit
clicks that would check her
brain function before the
surgery went ahead.
• While she was under, her
breathing and heartbeat would
stop while they drained the
blood from her brain.
What she recalls
• But after the surgery, she was able to accurately recall the entire event.
• Pam explained that once they began operating, she "popped up out the
top" of her head.
• She explained that there were 20 surgeons in the operating theatre and
described the shape of the saw they used to cut her head open.
• "It was an odd-looking thing," she said. "It looked like the handle on my
electric toothbrush.”
• "I heard a female voice say, 'Her arteries are too small.' And Dr Spetzler —
I think it was him — said, 'Use the other side,'" Pam said.
• As they lowered her body temperature, Pam noticed a tunnel and a bright
light.
• Pam also explained that as the surgeons restarted her heart, The Eagles'
song 'Hotel California' was playing.
om, a professor from Emory University, conducted an empirical study to shed l
Dr. Micheal Sabom’s findings
Number of Out of body Description given by
Patients experience the patients
20 No Major error in description
3 No Limited but correct description
2 No Did not know anything
26 Yes Visual description
6 Yes According to medical records
1 Yes Extremely accurate in portraying
the appearance, technique etc.
Common elements that define
near-death experiences
• A sense/awareness of being dead.
• A sense of peace, well-being, and painlessness. Positive emotions. A
sense of removal from the world
• An out-of-body experience. A perception of one's body from an outside
position, sometimes observing medical professionals performing
resuscitation efforts.
• A "tunnel experience" or entering a darkness. A sense of moving up, or
through, a passageway or staircase.
• Receiving a life review, commonly referred to as "seeing one's life
flash before one's eyes".
• A reluctance to return to one's body, Suddenly finding oneself back inside
one's body.
ounded while participating in combat in Italy. He vividly described his experience, stating
was separating from my body, like pulling a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corne
that point, I realized I was no longer dead."
After-effects of NDE
Scientists have identified a consistent set of value and belief changes
associated with people who have had a near-death experience:
• greater appreciation for life,
• higher self-esteem,
• greater compassion for others,
• less concern for acquiring material wealth,
• a heightened sense of purpose and self-understanding,
• desire to learn, elevated spirituality,
• no longer worrying about death
Whatever else we might learn in our life’s
journey, there is one thing we all need to know:
how to cross this material ocean by knowing the
purpose of life
Conclusions
• Body and Soul: Need a balanced life that integrates
physical health, mental well being and spiritual discipline
• Daily practice: Incorporate practices like meditation,
mantra chanting, and yoga to align your life with higher
purpose
• Seek spiritual knowledge: Regularly engage in spiritual
study and reflection
• Foundation of Spiritual pursuits: Recognise that material
success can be meaningful when aligned with your higher
purpose and guided by dharma
