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world that scientific progress can help man to live for ever. But he does not believe in the conception of a Supreme Being. Who is the Creator. We welcome this suggestion of the Russian fiction writer because we know that actual progress of scientific knowledge will certainly take the man to the spiritual sky and that advancement of knowledge will inform the scientist that the Supreme Creator is there full with all inconceivable potencies beyond the calculation of material science.
As suggested herein before every living being is eternal in form but he has to change his outer coverings of gross and subtle matters and this changing process is technically known as life and death. So long a living being has to pull on the sackles of material bondage there is no relief from the above mentioned changing process which is to continue even at the highest stage of material life. The Russian fiction writer may go on with his imagination, as all fiction writers are apt to do, but the saner section of the people who studies the natural law in face will not agree with the fiction writer that man can live for ever within this material world.
A naturalist will see to the action of the material nature even by studying a fruit in the tree. A small fruit developes from the flower and it continues to develop more and more. It stays for some time and then it becomes full grown and ripen. After the ripen stage it begins to dwindle day by day and on some day it falls down from the tree on the earth and begins its decomposition and at last becomes the dust leaving behind a seed of the fruit which again grows to become a tree and produces many many fruits in due course meeting the same fate as already described.
Similarly a living being (the spiritual spark part and parcel of the Supreme Being) takes its organic form in the womb of the mother just after the sexual intercourse. It grows little by little within the womb and after that without the womb, gradually becoming a child, boy, youth adult, old and so on. After old age the man becomes to dwindle and at a certain period he falls down in the grip of cruel death inspite of all good wishful desires of all section of fiction writers. So by comparison there is no difference between the two organic bodies namely the man