Rebirth
Rebirth
One year for us is one day for the devatas, demigods. for Brahma, a thousand ages are taken as one day. Only when we achieve the consciousness of nirvāṇa thoughtless awareness, will we not take rebirth.
At the time of death, our soul has three kṣaṇa to take another body. Three kṣaṇas can be three microseconds, three seconds or three minutes or three hundred years according to the person's frequency of thoughts. It depends on his state of mind. If we have lived a restless life, our kṣaṇas will be in microseconds. If we have lived a peaceful, blissful life and achieved at least one glimpse of thoughtless awareness, our kṣaṇa can be even two or three hundred years. If we can stop the next thought from happening within our inner space, our kṣaṇas can be increased to any extent. It can extend to eternity. So, kṣaṇas is relative and not absolute.
Time is actually not chronological, but psychological. If we sit with a friend with whom we are comfortable and joyful, after three or four hours, we suddenly notice the time and say, 'Oh! I don't know how the time has passed by so quickly!' At the same time, if we sit with somebody with whom we don't feel comfortable, we will look at the watch and think, watch not moving? Is there a problem with it? The time is simply dragging on.' The number of thoughts that happen in our mind decides the time consciousness. If thoughts are less, even after ten hours, we will not feel that ten hours have passed. If the number of thoughts is more, two or three minutes will seem like years.