Life & Life's Cycle - Life cycle & Cycle of Lives

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Published on Monday, 27 May 2013 03:11
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Life cycle & Cycle of Lives

Self realization -

If you simply eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life. Then you are no different from the animals. The animals also eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life. In fact, if you simply want to engage in these activities, then you are better off in the animal kingdom. The animals engage in all these activities without the bother of jobs, bills, marital problems and other humanly conditions of life.

Those humans who spent their life simply eating, sleeping, mating, and enjoying material life will be upgraded to a higher level at death. So they can continue with these activities but without the hassle of jobs, bills, marital problems and other humanly conditions of life in their next life. They will be born in the animal kingdom. God is very fair and merciful, he satisfies all our desires. If you behave like an animal then you will be one in your next life, at your own request.

The difference between human and animal consciousness is that humans are curious.

Real human beings enquire:

·         Who am I?

·         Where have I come from?

·         Where am I going after this life?

·         Who exactly is God?

·         How can I escape from the cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death?

·         How can I become immortal?

Animals do not Inquire. They simply eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life.

Humans are compassionate, they always think of others. The animals mind their own business and don’t think of others.

Humans are charitable. It is the duty of every human being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of those who are less fortunate with their wealth, intelligence, and words. The animals are not charitable; they simply enjoy everything for themselves.

Are you human or animal?

Human birth is rare - don't waste it.

The Scientific Theory of Evolution – Charles Darwin Theory

Charles Darwin is famous worldwide for his evolutionary theory. According to his theory, one species evolved into another. Thus one body changes into another. We evolved from the animals, our closet relatives in the animal kingdom are the monkeys.

The Vedic Theory of Evolution

The Vedic scriptures also state an evolutionary process, but the definition is different from that of Charles Darwin. There are 8.4 million different species of living beings in the whole of creation as follows:

·         900,000 species of aquatic.

·         2,000,000 species of plants.

·         1,100,000 species of insects.

·         1,000,000 species of birds.

·         3,000,000 species of beasts.

·         400,000 species of human beings

All these species were created by God and like Charles Darwin’s theory; we also evolved from the animals but not by changing the same body, but by transmigration of the soul from one body to another.

Transmigration of the soul from one body to the next

Every living being is a soul (including plants and animals) covered in a material body. The soul takes one body then quits it to take another and so on. Going through all the various species in the plant and animal kingdom (8 million) and then finally taking a human body. The human body is the highest and most elevated of all bodies.

Once we attain the human body, if we misuse or fail to utilize the higher consciousness then we again fall down in the plant and animal kingdom. Then again we have to go through the evolutionary process, moving from one body to the next in the plant and animal kingdom for 8 million births before we get another human birth.

“As the embodied soul continuously passes, in the body from childhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.” 

“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.” 

What Do the Vedic Religions Say About Evolution?

The Vedic scriptures state that even the plants and animals can go to the kingdom of God, but they have to wait for their human living form. If one lives a sincere life regardless of his religion, he will slowly be elevated in spiritual life which will one day lead to liberation from the cycle of birth and death and thus attain the kingdom of God. There is overwhelming evidence to support the Vedic theory of evolution, thus transmigration of the soul from one body to the next, reincarnation.

The Vedic theory of evolution is very scientific and only differs from Charles Darwin’s theory in terms of the method.

According to the Vedic religion the plants and animals do have a soul and the animals were not created as food for the humans. The animals are made of flesh and blood just like the humans and they do feel pain and have intelligence, just like the humans.

Higher and Lower Life Forms

There are 400,00 different species of human beings. Most of these species are uncivilized.

Within a species of human beings there are many different conditions in which one takes birth into.

Few Varieties:

·         Born black.

·         Born white.

·         Born gray etc..

·         Born Indian

·         Born American

·         Born Chinese

·         Born Saudi Arabian

·         Born African etc..

·         Born Hindu (Vedic)

·         Born Muslim

·         Born Christian

·         Born Jewish etc..

·         Born healthy

·         Born diseased

·         Born rich

·         Born poor

·         Born with loving and caring parents

·         Born with mean and un-caring parents

·         Born without a parent (one parent died before your birth)

·         Born with no parents (both parents died soon after your birth)

·         Etc….

There are so many other permutations of conditions that one can be born into. Thus a good human birth is extremely rare.

So what determines our next body and its conditions at Birth?

People are mad after sense pleasure. When a person considers sense enjoyment the aim of life, he certainly becomes mad after a materialistic life style and engages in all kinds of sinful activity.

Every person takes birth in a particular country, in a particular city, on a particular street, to a particular mother with a particular religion and financial situation. Exactly according to what the person (the soul) deserves.

“When one dies in the mode of goodness, he attains to the pure higher planets of the great sages. When one dies in the mode of passion, he takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities; and when one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom.” 

“Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the abominable mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds.” 

Your consciousness at death will determine your next body

“The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another.” 

“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” 

Life on all Planets is Miserable

“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to God's abode, never takes birth again.” 

So how do we become totally happy and free from all miserable conditions?

First you need to know what real happiness is. Becoming free from the cycle of birth and death and free from all diseases is real and everlasting happiness. This means taking birth in the spiritual universe called Vaikuntha. You cannot go to the spiritual universe with your present body, only when you quit it and also if you have the qualifications to enter it.

“That supreme domicile of mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this material world.” 

“That which the Vedäntists describe as distinctive and infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination, that place from which, having attained it, one never returns-that is My supreme domicile.” 

How Can We Enter The Kingdom Of God?

“One can understand me as I am, as the supreme personality of Godhead, only by devotional service. And when, by such devotion, one is fully conscious of me, one can enter into the kingdom of God.” 

“Whoever, at the end of life, quits his body remembering me alone at once attains my nature without a doubt.” 

The Regulative Principles for Human Beings

It’s not easy to give up a materialist and lusty life style, which most people are engaged in. Controlling the senses is like controlling the wind, which is very difficult. But when you realize that if you waste this rare human birth then you will have to go through the evolutionary process of transmigrating from one body to the next for millions of births before you get another chance of human birth, then it becomes a little easy.

Here are some basic starting points to end a demonic life style.

1.       Become a vegetarian.

2.       No sex before marriage or outside marriage.

3.       Stop losing your consciousness, no intoxication (no drugs, no alcohol etc..).

4.       Don’t speculate on your wealth, stop gambling.

All humans dream of going to the kingdom of God (the spiritual universe).

The non-Vedic religions say it’s ok to kill animals (eat meat). But in the kingdom of God there is no killing. So why don’t you start this practice now?

In the kingdom of God there is no sex, so why don’t you moderate your sex life now?

In the kingdom of God there are no intoxication, then why don’t you stop it now?

In the kingdom of God there is absolutely no speculation, so why don’t you stop speculating now

Don’t satisfy your desires

“A person who is not disturbed by the nonstop flow of desires-that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still-can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires. A person who has given up all desires for sense satisfaction, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego-he alone can attain real peace.” 

The plants/animals are on a fixed cycle of transmigration from one body to the next in the plant/animal kingdom. They will have to go through 8 million births before they get another human birth. Yes the plants and animals are ex-humans. And most of the humans will be plants and animals in the future.

The humans have been through the 8 million births in the plant and animal kingdoms. But if a human misuses or fails to utilize the higher consciousness, then he (the soul) will once again have to go through the 8 million births in the plant and animal kingdoms. Only a fool would waste this rare human birth.

Where will you be in 5,10,20,30,50... years time?

Please give a serious thought to consider now..