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After death the body of the person is still there then who has left? by Jayapataka Swami.

Name: After death the body of the person is still there then who has left? by Jayapataka Swami.
Uploaded: 2026-02-22T12:14:37+00:00
Duration: 1 min 21 s
Channel: Jayapataka Swami
Description: In this short teaching, Jayapataka Swami recounts a village story about a gravely ill grandfather surrounded by family and a doctor. As everyone cries…

22 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this short teaching, Jayapataka Swami recounts a village story about a gravely ill grandfather surrounded by family and a doctor. As everyone cries out that the grandfather is gone, the speaker points out that the physical body—its arms, legs, and head—remains, prompting the question of who has actually left. The answer given is the atma (soul), the true self, which departs while the body stays behind. The talk emphasizes that throughout life we have only known the person through the temporary body and its actions, not the eternal atma, urging listeners to recognize the impermanent nature of the body and the reality of the soul.

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God told this story one time when he went to a village about the grandfather. There was a grandfather who was very ill and he was lying down on his bed there. The doctor was there, wife, children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces. And they were all very anxious what was going to happen with grandfather. And the doctor turn to everyone, he's gone. No, no, my husband is gone. The wife cried out, no, no, my father is gone. Yelled out his children. The grandchildren were saying, no, no, our grandfather is gone. Everyone was crying out, he's gone, he's gone. The question is same body is there, same arms, legs, head. Then who is gone? Atma has gone. But the real person and this the real person, that body or the Atma who have we known whole life? We're only seeing the body, but body will be left. But the real person will leave. Have we ever known the real person? We're only knowing the person, how that person is acting through the body. So the body is temporary.