Question by Vishal(vishal@singnet.com.sg)
"Creating a clone is creating a new life.....?"
Creating a clone is NOT creating a new life.
By means of taking a living cell and cloning it ,
you can duplicate the physical structure of of the organism,but you do
not create a new soul or life.
I will give a few examples...
The King Nimi Incurs the wrath of his Preceptor- the
Rishi Vasishta. Vasishta curses Nimi so that Nimi leaves his physical
body. The body is embalmed with aromatic oils, herbs, and resins.
Nimi does not leave behind any successor. So the
Rishis take the body and by making use of a fire -kindling rod, churn the
thigh of Nimi's dead body. From the process (whatever it could have
been),the Rishis create a totally new person . He is considered as the
son and successor to Nimi . He is known as King Janaka I. He is the the
fore-father of Janaki@Sita. THe dynasty is known as the Videha
Dynasty(Videha=without body).
Although the cells from the tissue of the thigh of
Nimi were used,we have two totally different persons here-Nimi and
Janaka.... with two different souls!
There is another story.
Manmatha tries to entice Siva with his Kaama Paana
arrows of love and lust. Siva just opens his third eye and burns Manmatha
to ashes.
One of the Bhuuta leaders of Siva, takes pity upon
Manmatha.He gathers up the ashes of Manmatha and heaps them up into a
humanoid figure and beseeches Siva to raise it to life.
Siva sprinkles a few drops of the life-giving Amrutha
from his Jata locks of hair, on to the ash figurine. It comes to life.
But....
It is not Manmatha. It is a fierce, dangerous ,and
powerful Asura - Bandaasura.He finally is destroyed by Sri Lalitha Maha
Thripura Sundhari .
Then She causes Siva to restore Manmatha.Siva does so
and Manmatha appears in an invisible form.But he is visible only to his
consort, Rathi Devi.
Bandaasura was created from the ashes of Manmatha.
But both were two different beings, possessing two different souls.
There is a fine novel called "The Boys from Brazil".
Dr.Josef Mengele, the personal physician to Adolf
Hitler takes a few strands of hair and some blood from Hitler and escapes
to Brazil. He wants to create many Hitlers in order to capture the whole
world.So he succeeds in cloning 32 human babies from the tissues of
Hitler.
There is only one snag.
The 32 Boys from Brazil are the exact replicas of
Hitler. But they are not miniature Hitlers. They have personalities of
their own. It was only the physical body that was duplicated and not the
soul of Adolf Hitler!
According to most philosophies of Hinduism, life or
soul cannot be created.
Siva Maheshwara is the Lord of Ajnaana, Jnaana, and
Vijnaana.He alone knows the answers and He alone knows what He is doing.
"GOD does not play dice with the
Universe"...EINSTEIN.
