BE REBORN WITH GODS
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Every birth is your declaration of completion. You decide, ‘Come on! I declare completion. I will now work from the space of completion.’ During the birth you declare completion and start the whole think anew; and if you fall from the space of completion, you bring some of those past incompletions back. That is what is prārabdha karma. Karma which you bring back from the past incompletions is prārabdha. Whatever bio-memory you brought with you when you assumed the body is prārabdha. The muscle-memory you are accumulating is agāmya, and all collective bio-memories is sañcita. If you come to planet Earth only with bio-energy, without bio-memory, you are an Incarnation.
Only when you have found your root
thought pattern and removed it and
regained your consciousness, you will
understand, ‘Oh, God! I have literally
wasted my whole life!’
Kṛṣṇa says that a person living in satva
goes to higher spaces, the abodes of the
realized sages. He becomes divine,
tadottama vidāṁ lokān amalān
pratipadyate (14.14). When we are
steeped in satva, we live in restful
awareness, the space of enlightenment.
We live in the present moment. We are
no longer attached to the results of our
action and we are no longer controlled
by fear and greed root patterns. We stop
thinking about ourselves and we start
living for others.
When one is in tamas, in deep ignorance and darkness, one sinks lower in rebirth. Kṛṣṇa says such a person is reborn as an animal. The lowest energy center of a human being is the mūlādhāra cakra, the root center. Human beings are provided with intelligence to move upward in consciousness. We have the freedom to make mistakes and we do make mistakes. When Kṛṣṇa talks about being reborn in ignorance and as animals, it is not to denigrate animals. He means, a human being who behaves instinctively, out of a blocked mūlādhāra cakra, and out of an animalistic nature, is ignorant of his potential as a human.
We are not human beings striving
for a spiritual experience. We are
spiritual beings enjoying a human
experience. That is the truth. We
can be in this state only when we
are in satva. When we are in tamas,
we forget our spiritual nature.
When we are in rajas, we have a
vague idea; however, even that
spiritual experience becomes an
attachment, another pattern, goal
and desire. We become attached to
something that is beyond
attachment. Kṛṣṇa says that we are
reborn into this human form, back
into this cycle of life and death, this
cycle of saṁsāra, with all its
suffering.
It is our choice to be instinctive and unconscious, in deep tamas, like an animal, or to be logical and chasing objects out of rajas. The third choice is to be beyond attachments, in a super conscious state of completion, in an intuitive state, in tune with our sublime satva nature. This choice determines our next birth. In fact, it determines whether we will even be born again.
Kṛṣṇa, the Master psychologist is right on the mark: Purification and knowledge are from satva, distress and greed are from rajas, and foolishness, madness and illusion are from tamas!
