Cells contain genetic material; a cell divides and divides and becomes a body, gives a feeling of sensation to the mind by electric signals .... muscles contract and relax through electric signals again...finally a day comes when electric signals no longer flow...is that death?It could be but what if one of those cells has gone to create a progeny? The genetic material continues to flow.So there is no death for the genetic material unless the person dies without a child, but ofcourse because of so many branches it had in the past (through siblings), the initial genetic material is continuing to exist, evolving through mutations and crossover...So it is eternal and evolving.
But of course an individual copy of the genetic material dies, so death is for individual cells. When all of them die the macroscopic organism also dies. An individual organism contains millions of cells, each with a phase of birth(mitosis), and death. So Jivatma, should be applied at a microscopic level, for each individual cell.
What I mean to say is with the new knowledge , what Sankara told about Self and Self manifesting itself through body and senses should be applied to individual cells....
How would Sankara interprete things with the new knowledge if he were in the contemporary world? Has anybody thought about reinterpreting Advaita in the current context?
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