LIFE AFTER DEATH

LIFE AFTER DEATH

Why are we born and what are we supposed to do? All might have asked this question at least once in their life time. This is an attempt to clarify as per my knowledge and experiences.

Life is the continuous blessing of God. One takes birth in a particular shape or form depending on the pent up desires and quality of mind at the time of one’s death. As explaining the reason for birth etc is more complicated, let us see what decides births.

The present activities of one decides the next course of action of oneself and the others. That way even the action of the smallest member of this world, lets say an amoeba or a bacteria can change the entire course of the world. How? Lets say a bacteria gets attached to the body of a man and gets multiplied there. As per modern science, the person may get ill which would affect the family. The person is taken to the hospital. Thus others are affected and it creates a small ripple in this apparently huge world. This ripple would propagate and might subside or gather momentum according to the prevailing circumstances thus having the potential to change the entire course of the world.

So each member of this world is very important. Yes. That beggar on the street can change the course of the world.

If a beggar dreams loudly that “God give me the poshest house which I desire so deeply”, do not laugh at him ! His wish is a command in this world and would be honoured in time. Yes in TIME. This time may take its own time which is another issue. Therefore the grant of the wish may be spontaneous (which is very remote if there are several such wishes and posh houses are in short supply !) or may take a life time or beyond. I am right now interested in this ‘beyond’ part. Yes there is a part of life which is beyond this one.

If one is very much interested in food (you can see many such foodies around. Due to their sizes it is not very difficult to spot them !), and if one dies that way with the dream / wish of having tons of food, he / she is likely to be reborn as a …you guessed right …a pig! A pig has no choice. It can feed from fresh vegetables and fruits to garbage and you know what..YUK ! OK. The taste or quality of the food of pigs vis a vis the humans is not the subject of discussion here.

Similarly a beautiful woman lets say miss universe might have been an ugly one in last birth but might have done such good deeds to have the present form today. Again if that same beautiful woman decides to throw her beauty around thus causing split families or marriages or trauma for the lesser endowed ones, then she might be heading to become a not so desirable one next. Or become a man who would suffer etc. Those who ill treat women may kindly note. This is not the end of the story. Life follows after death. You keep several women as sex slaves today with money or power or black mail and you could become a female in the next birth and get ditched by your man or get raped brutally by the same women who might have now changed shapes by then. So be careful in what you do !

Some one too much interested in sex, can thus be reborn as a Donkey, which is said to be only interested in that activity !  (No degrading meant for the donkey here. Only citing an example just to understand. Take it that way only. Animal activists please excuse !)

So the options of rebirth depends on your present actions. You take a gun and kill a few around under some pretext. You could be reborn as an insect or a worm which cannot see and get stamped by the passers by to pulp, without giving you time to wish for a better life !

So what should we do today? We are here because of our past actions. If you correct them here itself , then you can have a better form and life next. You be jealous of a prosperous neighbour and do black magic to trap him, and you are heading for a lesser form next.

Non vegetarians please note. You kill an animal / bird today and eat it for taste, the roles can change vice versa next. So you eat a goat today and the goat would become you and you could become the goat and again eating would take place, this time vice versa ! This eating cycle would continue until the eater and the eaten face each other and ask “ brother why are we eating one another over and over again? And then that cycle would snap and another would begin. That is not the end of the story either. Cycles after cycles that is life. We are following different cycles. One in a particular cycle might think the others are stupid or doing weird things. Shhhh. Keep that observation to yourself. You do not know what he is following. And he / she / it follows its own cycle, that is the unending path of actions and results. Do not judge anyone. Just follow your own cycle and try to come out of that. That is what one should do. For example, bring up a good family, love the family members, take care of them and then you are doing your Dharma, the right action. You can do an Adharma (wrong action) and face the consequences as well. The choice is yours and yours only. You are only responsible for your actions. So better do good things and leave the others alone. Do not even guide them, for if you do that then you are partly responsible for what he does also and you also get entangled in another cycle not of your choice or the one that you actually deserve. So think before you do anything. These are precious decisions, mind you ! All the best !!