What happens exactly when the living entity leaves the body?
From: Bh Nagaraj
Prabhuji, some places in SB I have read that after the living entity leaves the body, immediately, within no time, its taken to hellish planets to suffer the bad reactions of its karma. Even though for the living entity with subtle body this may appear to be ages, it all happens in a short time and the living entity is given a new body based on karma.
Now, there is also saying that, the living entity hovers around the dead body for quite some days(? not very sure) and repents for its previous relatives sorrowful state.,
How to understand this?
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I am indebted to my friend Murari Gupta Prabhu, who is a medical doctor, for providing the below points in the answer.
Basically in tattoing indelible ink is injected inside the dermis, the underlaying layer under the superficial skin. the outer epidermal layer is repeatedly shed by mulitiplication of the basal layers which move upwards, but the dermal layer is relatively stable. the tattoo ink is like a foreign body which is ingested by the immune cells and because it can not be degraded the body forms a protective layer around it, thus preventing it to cause more damage. so while the molecules of the cell continously change, the essential cell structure remains the same. so the ink remains as it is.
the superficial layer of skin is relatively transparent, that is why in some fair people we can see the bluish veins. its not that the superficial layer of skin becomes pigmented, its just the ink that is showing thru from the deeper layers.
its similar to having foreign body shotgun pellets for years in one’s body.
because the bullets are fired at high speed and temperature, they become sterlised and because they are minute (mm size), they cause minimal damage.
they remain lodged in skin, muslces, lungs for years. safer to let them in rather than operate and cause more damage.
from wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo
Tattooing involves the placement of pigment into the skin’s dermis, the layer of dermal tissue underlying the epidermis. After initial injection, pigment is dispersed throughout a homogenized damaged layer down through the epidermis and upper dermis, in both of which the presence of foreign material activates the immune system’s phagocytes to engulf the pigment particles. As healing proceeds, the damaged epidermis flakes away (eliminating surface pigment) while deeper in the skin granulation tissue forms, which is later converted to connective tissue by collagen growth.
This mends the upper dermis, where pigment remains trapped within fibroblasts, ultimately concentrating in a layer just below the dermis/epidermis boundary. Its presence there is stable, but in the long term (decades) the pigment tends to migrate deeper into the dermis, accounting for the degraded detail of old tattoos
http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/beauty/skin-and-lifestyle/tattoo.h
good diagram
Tattoo removal is most commonly performed using lasers that react with the ink in the tattoo and break it down. The broken-down ink is then absorbed by the body, mimicking the natural fading that time or sun exposure would create.