I don't know how
to begin as there is a lot going in my mind right now. Recently there had been
a tragedy in our family. My father passed away on May 27, 2018..
He was 93 years old and left us all shocked and heart
broken.
We cremated him at our Native place Rajpura-Punjab-India with
proper rituals and wet eyes. After the cremation there is a Hindu ritual of
collecting phool (bones) and ashes.
The day after we all
went there to complete the ritual where I encountered a strange thing.
The priest searched in
the ashes took a piece of bone which was located near my uncle’s heart
and “there it is AATMARAM” he said.
Clueless for a moment
I looked at it. It was a piece of bone looked more like a vertebra. Although I am
a CA., but before doing CA being from a science background I knew it is not a
vertebra. Then what is it?
As I was about to ask
what is aatmaram, the priest started explaining. “Not every deceased
person has aatmaram after being cremated. This represents that Shri Yash
Pal Singhal ji (my father) is a pure soul.” This increased my
curiosity so I put all my focus on aatmaram. It looked like a person sitting
crossed legs with his hands and fingers in dhyan mudra (position of
meditation). I was speechless. It was like a new dimension of knowledge just
opened in front of my sight.
Still a little sceptical I searched the internet later that
night to find many post not only by the Indian origin but also from the
foreign researchers. One of which took my attention. It stated “The
Aatmaram is a piece of bone which is a part of the ribcage closest to the
heart. It is here, that the soul resides. Although, the soul is said to be in
the entire body but it is said that this is the centre point. If found intact,
it looks like a person in a yogic sitting position with crossed legs and hands
& fingers in a mudra. This aatmaram is supposed to signify the greatness
and the purity of the person.”
Exactly! What I
encountered during the day.
We may be living in
the 21st century with all the researches and amazing new
technologies and countries competing to reach mars etc. But we still do not
have answers to many questions which god created. We do not study aatmaram in
anatomy books. I asked a friend of mine who is a doctor and is into research
related to bio mechanics. When I spoke to him it doesn't took me long to
conclude that science doesn't even have a logical answer to it.
Sometimes we don’t
need today’s logic to get correct answers.
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