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consciousness is lacking in the dead body.

Consciousness is not made from a combina on of material elements
or chemicals. It is a non-material phenomenon a es ng the presence

of the soul in the body. This is confirmed by Lord Krishna. He declares,
“That which pervades the en re body you should know to be inde-
struc ble. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.” (Bg 2.17)

One cannot see the soul, but everyone knows it is present by the con-
sciousness present in the body. The body minus consciousness is dead,
which means the soul is no longer present. The body is simply a mate-
rial vehicle that is driven by the soul similar to a car driven by a living

person. The material body-vehicle moves because there is a soul pre-
sent in the heart and all the energies for bodily movement emanate
from the heart of the living being. Blood corpuscle cells which carry
oxygen from the lungs receive energy from the soul. If the soul leaves
the body at death, the produc on of blood cells ceases. The average

rate of blood cell produc on is 200,000,000,000 per day which totals
about a pint a week. This is a mysterious and incredible natural pro-
cess.

Scien sts have not been able to steadily produce human blood alt-
hough knowledge of the blood’s cons tuents is known. They are ex-
perimen ng with stem cells of human blood to produce more blood.
But they have not as yet fully tested such laboratory blood on human

beings to see if it can be used safely. The mystery of blood produc on
as well as any a empt at crea ng life from chemicals or dead ma er
has perplexed scien sts. Producing blood from human blood stem
cells is a process beginning with living cells produced by human beings
used to produce more living cells. Life comes from life and not from
dead ma er or chemicals.

Whenever there is an a empt to find the origin of life, the scien sts

are confounded by a display of incredible mys c power at the source
of crea on. They can see the crea on of red blood cells under the mi-
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