25. The woman who became a stone
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Listen: the belief you carry about you plays a major role in your life. Whatever you believe, you become that, you are that. The external situation is not going to decide what you are; it is the ideas you carry about you, the stuff out of which you are made, which decides that.
If you believe that the body is you, you will be only that. I feel so bad about the people who believe that they are only body, who believe they have only one birth, because they stop the possibility of growth.
That is exactly what happened with Ahalya. The story of Ahalya in Ramayana says that she turned into a stone and remained as a stone for many ages. Finally, when the great incarnation Sri Rama just touched her with his foot, she was awakened again.
When people believe that they are only the body, when they believe that they have only one birth, when such people die, they are stuck in a zone called 'causal layer'. They are just kept there in the Waiting Lounge for ages, because of what they believed when they were in the body. That was the layer in which Ahalya was stuck, and Rama liberated her. Ahalya got stuck in the wrong belief about life. She stopped growing. She stopped expanding. She thought that the moment death comes, life is over, because it is all about body; her being is nothing but body. She was stuck with that, and Rama came and liberated her from that space.
The good news is: if you have some immature belief, you can transform it; the possibility is available to you. And the great news is: it is very simple! With completion, you can do it.
