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You Are Not Your Body And Mind :

You replace 98% of your physical body in less than 8 months. Atom by atom.
This is discovered through Radioactive Isotope analysis.

But now the questions occurs, what happened to the body from last year?

It has been scattered all across the cosmos through the activity of the universe.

It is no more with you now.

It is dead. And yet, the "I" - sense of "I" or "Being Me" has not died.

If you have been believing that you are but your physical body, you certainly have a problem.

If you believe that you're your physical body, which one are you talking about?
This one of the earlier thousands of bodies.
Are you talking about the one right now or the one which was there 7 months ago? Or the one which was there 2 years ago?

You literally create a new liver every 6 weeks, a new skin once a month, a new stomach lining every 5 weeks, a new skeleton every 3 months, the brain cells every year and the DNA (which carries the memory of millions of years of evolution) comes and goes every 6 weeks.

If you want to account for each and every atom in the body, it is all replaced in less than 2 years of time by new set of atoms.

This is the first major insight that you must atleast begin to understand to know the nature of what you are actually.

You are constantly outliving the physical death of the body. Right this moment, perhaps the body is merely a place that your memories call 'home' for the time being. Apart from the imprint of past arrangements, there exists nothing else that is old.

The fact of the matter is that 99.99999% of the human body or anything else is mostly empty space.

The 0.00001% which appears material is also, ultimately, empty space. If you go deep enough, even the tiny dancing strings of energy are nothing but modifications of empty space.

The whole thing is made out of Nothing. The essential material of the Universe is that it is not material at all.
Matter is an illusion which we, in Bharat, called Maayaa.  The essential 'stuff' of the Universe is 'non-stuff'.

We're well aware of the term - Neuroplasticity these days. It refers to fundamental characteristic of our brains. Brain is not an established entity. It changes from time to time. Neuroplasticity is the ability of brain to restructure itself by erasing/forming its own structure.

You are constantly changing your brains. And in a short period of time you have a completely different brain - literally! Structurally!

Infact, your brain is no more the same as it was two days ago. It has formed newer neural connections and erased certain old ones.

And above all, all the food that you have gathered is from outside. And you expel it out everyday. Your body is like a river. It's not a noun. It's a verb. It is a process.

It is new every moment. It's ever evolving, ever changing.

But there's something that is unmoved. You.

You, the observer of all these changes, doesn't change or perish with the changes and perishing of your physicality.

You are as much you as you were two years ago.

You are here and now, even though all the stuff that you thought you were has spread itself across the universe.

Then what are you?
What are you beyond your body mind?
What is the nature of your existence?
Where have you come from?
Where are you going to go?
Are there dimensions beyond your mind and body that you're simply unaware of because till now all you thought you were was your body.

I will not answer these questions for you.
Because it is your journey. You have to know it for yourself.

Me telling you will be like a story that you'll believe or disbelieve in, not leading you anywhere.

But you're here to know it directly. Experientially.

If these questions have really sprouted in you being. If you really wish to know the answers of these then you've become a Seeker.

Not a believer. Not a follower. But a seeker of Truth.

Since you know now, that you do not know. This is the first ray of knowledge.

Earlier you did not even knew that you do not know. Now atleast you know that - I do not know the nature of my existence.

All the thousands of answers to these questions you may have heard or read are simply stories that someone else has told you. You do not know it by yourself.

Stories will entertain you. Stories will excite your imaginations but they are not a solution. They will put you to a sleep with a false sense of knowledge - I have an explanation. But, for example, explanation of love is one thing and knowing love for yourself is another.

Explanations have no relation to the reality. It's merely psychological ramblings of an ignorant mind.

So theories will not lead to knowledge. It is first-hand, direct, face to face experience that will lead to knowledge.

Congratulations on becoming a Seeker of Truth.