Will donating my body parts help me in the afterlife? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)

Question: Donating body parts will really have any meaning in after life; negative or positive?

Acharya Prashant: What’s your name?

L: Anubhav

AP: Anubhav is asking, will donating body parts help me in the afterlife or help someone else in afterlife, in whatever way?

The question is, ‘Do we know this life?’ We are talking about afterlife as if life itself is very clear and intimate to us. We do not know this life but we are so very interested in other life, in some other world. Do you know life? When are you thinking of afterlife? Right now in this life. Do you know this life? What do you mean by afterlife and why must the mind jump to the thought of the afterlife?

What is life? Is life about eating, breathing, walking, sleeping, procreating? Is this life? Remember, if this is life, then very soon technology will come up with humanoids, with machines, with robots which will do all of these things. Breathing is a chemical-mechanical process. You can have machines that can breathe, very easily. Digestion of food, all the impulses in the brain – electrical, chemical processes. Any machine can do all of this. Walking, getting tired, procreating, you very well know of test tube babies. Machines can do all of this. If this is not definition of life then this life is not living at all because this life can be produced in a factory.