What gives life to the body?

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The heart which pumps blood and keeps the “systems running “the metabolism happening, the cerebral perfusion maintained, and thus consciousness and reasoning alive….And heart continues to beat…one is alive…

But if the “reasoning” and “consciousness” is not perceptible to the Medical professional either by “tests of brain stem function” or an EEG which is “flat” one labels the person to be “brain dead” or in “persistent vegetative state”…and more dead than alive…or rather dead but alive because the heart keeps the perfusion going on….Current definitions define death as brain death…

Or if heart stops and if one is able to sustain the function through an extra-corporeal pump, and this keep systems perfused and running – is the person alive…Heart dead but function alive by mechanical support…”

The fact that Science is a man made method of unraveling the creations mysteries, and as more mysteries are raveled, our understanding of “Death and Life” will also continue to emerge….!

But if one goes through the “Book of Life” (not the one which Peter has) but the Word which you and I have – it is clear what gives life…

Dry bones can get flesh and blood, skin and muscles, but unless the spirit of God breathes into them the body or bodies are not alive….

Unless the “Spirit of God” comes down and dwells in the midst of His people, the community or family is not alive…and

Unless the God of creation and God of life is the center of a Nation, the Nation is not alive….

Lok Pal Bills, RTI bills all could create a semblance of life returning to a Nation…but it is more like a person who is dead and kept alive by “extra-corporeal circulation”…All it needs is to disconnect the machine and we can declare the person dead….

Something more – than the pumping heart of the conscious brain is required…more than Anna Hazares and Lok Pal Bills are required….a consciousness which is alive and alert….a inner pump which pumps in life…and “Spirit” which blows over and in and out of this nation…

That should be our prayer…

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