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Transplantation

What is transplantation? What are its spiritual consequences? I have been concerned with this issue for a long time and I have heard a lot of controversial opinions.

Transplantation is the transfer of a tissue or an organ within an organism or between organisms. The topic of transplantation is very broad, serious and sensitive and that is the reason why it cannot be simplified. In spite of this fact the following can be said.

An organ can be removed only from such a body in which the total blood coagulation in organs has not occurred yet after death certification (it means that the soul has not had enough time to withdraw and is still connected to the body).

Let us think about the spiritual consequences often caused by this act. At the time of the organ removal the donor´s soul suddenly feels to be roughly violated and maybe in certain sense also robbed (this act is always very insensitive because the mentioned operation always has to be carried out quickly). But this soul cannot express these feelings in any way. It very often experiences a strong resistance to manipulation with its body without any possibility of defence. The centre of this problem is the fact that nobody takes into consideration the existence of the soul and the attention of the mourners is paid only to the body itself.

Such a soul has the feeling of being considered as a storage place of organs and this fact dishonours it in a great extent. In many a case it even feels physical pain. In a desperate state the soul wants to defend itself, wants to cry and forbid this manipulation. Unfortunately, it cannot succeed because between the soul and the doctors´ team stands a wall erected by the ignorance of the spiritual consequences which transplantation brings and also the ignorance of the human spiritual existence after death itself. Even the soul of the so-called voluntary donor is always painfully injured, bitterly disappointed.

These situations mostly occur after accidents or other injuries when basic human bodily functions fail (most frequently after brain injuries) but the organ suitable for the transplantation is healthy and actually still “alive” concerning its connecting radiation with the soul.

The other possibility of the organ removal from the body is so-called voluntary donorship when a healthy man decides to have his organ exteriorised from his fully functioning, healthy body. Of course, the objective criteria of the donorship have to be met prior to the operation. It is generally considered to be an act of enormous love. However, its results are also very harmful. Why?

If the donor is alive, without a fully functioning body and health he often takes the risk of the impossibility to fulfil his life tasks which he had resolved before his birth. If he even died prematurely, may it be just one hour too early, the responsibility for the non-fulfilment of his task could be literally fateful. To be simplified – everybody lives essentially for his life task and is obliged to fulfil it.

In this respect, nobody can be replaced by another person! If one does not accomplish his life task, he fails – no self-delusion is valid.

And finally – who can wantonly decide on the devaluation of his health or on the shortening of his life, when the granter of all life is the Creator, God?

Let us look at transplantation from a different point of view. Yet unfortunately, the true one…The man has often been damaging his body due to his stubbornness for such a long time that he irrecoverably damages some of his organs. Then he can see the only one possibility how to solve his problem in the transplantation of a new organ. In a zeal of devotion and in silent desire he asks God for help and expects from others “the merciful act of donorship” to his own rescue. Yes, he expects from others the greatest love sacrifices but it never crosses his mind to change a single tiniest habit of his bad behaviour which has caused this situation. Even if you inform him about it, in his oversensitivity and self-pity he will reproach you with your inability to feel sympathy for a suffering person.

Let us ask a question – can such a suffering person lay a claim to be healthy? Isn´t it possible that this just occurred suffering is the only way to his real health and spiritual salvation, having been pre-prepared by the wise Righteousness? For the purpose of human life is not possible to be evaluated according to the length of its lasting but according to the intensity and the depth of the inner experiencing. And exactly from this perspective it is also necessary to view the total meaning of the human life. The man´s way through life shall be a continuing journey towards goodness, purity and loving helpful treatment of other people.

It is therefore needed to evaluate as a presage of a big disaster when a suffering man keeps in his mind the silent thoughts of the need to own his neighbour’s organ to regain health, and neither has he ever seriously thought about these facts, nor is he willing to change himself for the better by virtuous work on himself.

We also have to bear in mind that every healthy man lives to fulfil his own role which he has to accomplish. He cannot wantonly destroy himself because he does not know about everything that is expected from him in this earthly life! Not even the noblest words of a perverted form of mercifulness will change anything about it before the Laws of the Creation! The essence of mercy does not lie in destroying oneself by helping others but in saving one´s life to help a neighbour bear his cross of suffering. So if the man fulfils his task in this sense and helps one of his neighbours, there may be another person awaiting him, expecting his help too. However, if we destroyed ourselves by a single act, we certainly would not be able to help any further.

Transfusion is also an organ transplantation because blood is a liquid organ. But let us remind here that blood is a renewable organ and a donor will neither miss it, nor his life will be shortened. In addition, blood cells stop their existence after some time and so the donor is soon going to create his own blood. But a solid organ will not remould in the recipient’s body and permanently remains in his body as a foreign organ.

Let us say a few words in conclusion. It would be too one-sided and insufficient to say a generally valid YES or NO to transplantation! That would be a great simplification and life is never so simple. Everything is much more lively and varied. What is good for somebody, can be very harmful for another person and vise versa. More important is therefore to be always able to view our life first from a long-term perspective through the activity of the principles and laws in the Creation. Only this brings not only enlightenment but also real wisdom which again brings insight and answers to all important questions.

T.L.