INTRODUCTION
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Kṛṣṇa talks about how we choose
everything in our lives, including our
birth, when and where we are born
and whom we choose as our parents.
This truth may seem difficult for most
of us to believe. Our birth is not just
an accident. It is an incident and we
are the ones who choose all the details
about this incident. We must
understand that it is only we who
program and design everything and
everybody in our life, including our
parents and environment.
For example, if we live to eat rather than eat to live, at the time of death, we will still have the desire to continue eating. So, we might choose the body of a pig. Or, if we have lived our life only for sleeping, we might choose the body of a buffalo. So, based on the attitude we have lived with, we choose the next body. This is the basic idea on which our janma-maraṇa cakra (cycle of life and death) revolves.
Here, Kṛṣṇa gives the assurance to Arjuna and to the whole of humanity that a person who has performed virtuous activities takes birth in a family of wise people or in a prosperous family.
When we live our life running behind
our greed and desires, running after
"what next? what next....?," naturally,
at the time of our death also, we will
not be ready to leave the body. The
body will be tired of running behind
desires continuously, but the mind
will not be ready to leave. So we will
leave the body in the pain and
suffering. If we can just relax into the
present, we will leave the body in a
relaxed way, peacefully
Once we leave the body, in three
kṣaṇa, three moments, we get
into a new body and we are
reborn. Kṣaṇa in Saṃskṛt means
the gap between two thoughts. If
we have been constantly running
behind desires, the gap between
two thoughts will be really small
for us. When we learn to relax
into the present, the gap between
two thoughts increases and the
three kṣaṇas can be a long time.
Here, Kṛṣṇa says that on taking
birth, we gain the intelligence of
the previous body and continue
the journey where we left off.
© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved
One thing we should
understand here is that
when we say death, it is
not just the death that
happens at the end of
our life. It is what
happens every day and
night. Every day we leave
the body. We go to the
causal body when we fall
asleep. Every day we die.
When we wake up, we
come back. Every day we
come back to life. As of
now, every morning,
how do we come back to
life? How do we take this
body again in the
morning? Just look
deeply. What happens at
the time when we get up
from bed?
© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved First thing, usually, the moment we gain awareness, either a thought based on greed or fear will hit us. There will be thoughts based on greed such as, 'I need to get this today,' or thoughts based on fear such as, 'I have to finish this work today.' Some thought based on fear or greed will hit us. Immediately, we will jump out of our bed. When we get up from bed, let the first thought be related to love and compassion.
Wake up only to express life in bliss. Wake up just out of joy.
Goals: For the child to understand our choices in the cycle of life and death.If we alter our thoughts at the time of waking up, we will alter the whole consciousness..