There are 8.4
million species of life in existence. In the species below human
beings-animals, birds, fishes, insects, birds, etc-there is no free will.
Hence, upon death the soul is naturally and sequentially promoted to the next
species. But human beings possess the free will to act according to their
volition, and hence, they are responsible for their actions. Their next birth
is decided by their karmas in the present life.
The facility
to do karmas is given to the human species, not for animal-like activities,
but for God-realization.
The scriptures state:
आहार निद्रा भय मैथुनंम च सामान्यमेतत् पशुभिर्नराणाम .
"Eating, sleeping,
defending and mating are activities that animals can do as well as
humans." The human form is special because in it we can attain God. If
however, some human being focuses his or her consciousness merely on eating,
then the body of a pig becomes more suitable for such a person, and the soul
is allotted that body in its next life. If someone makes sleeping the goal of
life, God says that the body of a polar bear is more suitable for such a
consciousness and allots it in the next life. In this manner, one of the
factors determining our next birth is our consciousness at the time of death.
Another factor determining
our next life is the Law of Karma……..
The Garud Purana states :
ऊर्ध्वागतिस्तु धर्मेण अधर्मेण ह्यधोगतिः
“The one who performs pious
deeds goes to the higher abodes in the next life; one who does sinful activities
is demoted to the hellish abodes.””As you sow, that shall you also reap” is
what the BIBLE also says.
However, the Law of karma and
the determination of consciousness are so complex that we cannot analyze and
determine our next birth by ourselves. The all-knowing God alone has the
ability to determine and allot it to us…….
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Very nice vedic knowledge..but question on how to attain human birth in next life is not answered pls share the answer
ReplyDeleteSure Vikrantji....NIce to hear from you......
DeleteIt is said in Bhagvat Gita that" Whatever one remembers at the time of leaving the body, one attains the same in the next life."
Death is such a painful experience that it is difficult to focus one's thoughts at that time, and the mind naturally gravitates to whatever one has practiced thinking of throughout one's life. Hence, what we think of at death, reflects the consciousness we cultivate during life. This verse of bhagvat gita implies that it is the cultivation of our consciousness during our life, which determines the next birth.
But we don't know that at which moment we are going to leave this world. So Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj advices that always keep diverting your mind in God throughout whole life. So whenever your time will come to go from this world and if your mind will be in god at that time then god will give one another chance of giving us Human Birth again to complete the remaining part of bhakti(devotion) which have remained unfulfilled in this birth.