WHY WE DON'T HAVE MEMORY OF PAST LIFE?

      I have talked about the reincarnation and how we carry same Astral Body - also called SUKSHMA SHARIR and Causal body -or KARAN SHARIR. The Astral body is SUBTLE BODY and the subtle body is Mind ,Intelligence ,and Ego (MANAS-BUDHHI - AHANKAR). The mind and inelegance should have or have MEMORY. We act in certain way based on our PREVIOUS experience. So if I know that  fire flames in fire place are HOT and our hand will get burns, if we touch it, then even with fake fire place and flames which look  red hot , we will hesitate to touch it as our memory and intelligence tells us NOT TO DO IT. This memory should be carried from one life to other if the mind and inelegance are the SAME from one life to other.

     But that does not happen.. The child has NO memory of fire place or heat or anything like that. So why is this memory not there if the mind is same in new life after reincarnation. The answer may be as to what we call as memory. We in present life call memory when we 'remember ' the actual thing .When I see someone or meet someone , that I had seen in past, I am expected to remember him . This is the memory as we talk about in this life . But the memories that are carried from life to life are not that kind of memories. If I do remember the people , then I will have problem in my next life with relationships. The memory is stored in ASTRAL body is stored as IMPRESSION or in ABSTRACT form . So if I like donuts or cakes - i like sweet things - the memory that is carried from one life to other is not that of 'liking donuts or cakes' but stored as 'like sweet things'. If I am born in Indian family in my next life ,I will like sweet Indian things like 'JALEBI OR LADDU' ETC. The same things applied to dog or cat or a person. We will be in love with animals  and with certain person , we will have some kind of attraction. For them or certain qualities in them. 

     That is why we do carry memory, but not the same type of memory as we have in physical body memory 

WHAT HAPPENS TO CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE TIME OF DEATH?

      We have talked about the consciousness and the 3 bodies in Vedic religion and what happens to the 3 bodies at the time of Death. As we have talked in past, the physical body , which is made out of physical elements, is separated from the 2 other bodies namely the Subtle Body or also called Astral body - SUKSHMA SHARIS and the Causal body or also called KAARAN SHARIR .Just like a computer ,if the battery is dead or it has no electric power , the Hardware and the software , even though they are there, the computer CAN NOT WORK or perform it's job. The same thing with the the physical body and the 2 other bodies. Once we do not have support of  Astral and Causal bodies , the physical body will die and cannot perform it's function. The Astral body and the Causal bodies are functional with the consciousness , but without Physical body , it cannot EXPRESS anything or experience anything.

  The Consciousness is reflected and that is there  and that drives the bodies. The 2 bodies continue from life to life and the Physical bodies are different. Just like in computer , we can reinstalls the same  software and the all the things that we have stored on  hard drive. And then the NEW COMPUTER will work with memory of all the old documents and software .The consciousness ir there reflected in the causal body -astral body complex  and so there is the energy.

  The energy is lost or gone only when one DESTROYES the Astral and the Causal bodies . All the impressions are stored in Causal bodies and they are waiting to come to fruition. If there are no KARMA or Impressions left with their effects in Causal body then there is no causal body and there is nothing to reflect and the that is NIRVANA or MOKSHA .

REALITY ?? WHAT IS THE REALITY ?

       In Hindu religion, it is often stated that the BRAHM IS REALAND THE UNIVERSE IS UNREAL. ब्रह्म सत्य जगन मिथ्या . How can the universe which we experience every day be not real? But then all the enlightened Rhushis could not be wrong . So what is the real (?) explanation ?different colors - color blind person will see things differently. The 

     There are many thoughts that come to my mind . One simple is that all of us have different reality. I am looking at morning Sun rise and the sky is full of colors. I can see blue sky and white or dark clouds, and also red Sun and the shy that changes the colors as it rises . But someone who does not have cones in their eyes will have will have difficulties observing the colors - just like dogs who have limited spectrum of colors. So what is reality . Now I also said that the SUN IS RISING . But the Sun does not rise but the horizon goes down. So again we have question as to what is real. 

   But that is in THIS universe that we see . But one of the criteria used to say if something is real or not is if something that DOES NOT CHANGE . If I am looking at a table that I have, and I look at it daily and don't see any change and I thing it's real. But in reality, it is CHNAGING every second, every minute and every hour. So with the criteria of UNCHANGING the table is not real as it changes and then it will crumble  and decay. So this is second way of things being not REAL. 

     But one other  reason is the one that  the  enlightened souls explain. There are 3 different worlds. 

We all have dreams and in dream, we see things. we see human beings and animals and houses and roads etc. But say we are seeing ourselves in the dream and we are hungry in dream. The food in our home freeze could not satisfy the hunger in our dream world. We nee food in our DREAMWORLS  to satisfy DREAM WORLD hunger.  In our dreams THAT WORLD THE DREAM WORLD is reality. But then same thing in our present existence. Dream world food will not satisfy our this world hunger. Now to take one more step. If THIS WORLD is PROJECTED WORLD by the GOD or Brahaman .and we are existing in the projected world or a dream of the GOD . Our dream world is there as long as we are dreaming  and if we wake up . it will disappear. The same thing with this world. It depends upon the ISHVARA or God . It is HIS PROJECTION and without HIS projection this worls would not exist. As much as person in our dream is hungry and that is real to him , in the dream of the God we are hungry in his dream. 

   ND THAT IS THE REALITY .

WHAT IS SOUL AND OTHER QUESTIONS

 

WHAT IS SOUL?

      The other day  I was checking my messages on a group chat, I and there was a news of someone passing away. This was followed by RIP-RIP-RIP by many. Then someone texted me asking me as to what is the concept of soul in Vedic religion and what happens to soul after death - death of physical body. Then we had exchange of texts and I thought of doing this blog. What I thought was what I told him and that is what I am writing here.

      The soul is a reflection of the CONSCIOUSNESS. So then the question comes as to where is this reflection and what happens to it after the death. How can it be carried from one life to other life. The reflection is not ORIGINAL THING , but still has the properties of the original thing. Let us take example of the Sun. When the Sun is reflected in a mirror, the reflection has the qualities of the Sun ,it has heat and also light .If we use lens to concentrate the image of the sun, then we can burn a paper.. But it is not real SUN. If we have a mirror, we will have a reflection of anything including the sun. The same thing can be applied to the human body. As one may recollect, we have 3 bodies namely physical body ,astral body  and causal body - STHUL SHARIR-SUKSHMA SHARIR AND KARAN SHARIR . The physical body dies at the time of so called death. But the 2 other bodies - Astral and Causal bodies are carried from one life to other. The IMPRESSIONS of our lives and KARMA are stored in CAUSAL BODY. And that is why we have rebirth. The Reflection of the Consciousness is in the CAUSAL BODY and the Astral body . As long as we have the MIRROR of these bodies , we have existence. This is THE SOUL-THE REFLECTION OF THE CONSCILUSNESS . This is the light - energy or the cause why we can think -act have intellect etc Without the fuel of this CONSCIOUSNESS , ONE WILL NOT HAVE ANY VALUE TO THE 2 BODIES. This can be compared to electricity. The computer works - the AC unit works -the Heater works and so does the light bulb. None of them can function without electricity . But the electricity ITSELF does not heat or cool or give light etc. The same is true of the reflected consciousness. IT ITSELF DOES NOT DO ANYTHING . But for mind to think , we need the consciousness. ASLONG AS THE MIRRORS OF ASTRAL AND CAUSAL BODIES ARE THERE there will be reflection and the SOUL IS THERE as an separate  entity - separate but still dependent. The only way we can have MUKTI or FREEDOM is when we have broken the CAUSAL BODY MIRROR. The astral body exists due to causal body  and causal body is there as we continue to accumulate KARMIC IMPRESSIONS. So now you know ,how to achieve NIRVANA and what is the SOUL. 

    I wrote this blog on my other blog post-www.kathopnishad.blogpost.com and then I had several comments and questions on the soul and so I thought of doing some addition to the post here .

     The first question was about Mummies - they have Physical body but he Astral and Causal bodies along with soul have left. Even the Physical body is not what it was , so it is NONLIVABLE as normal life -normal life as we know.

    What about Ghosts? The Ghosts are combination of Astral body and Causal body and off course the Soul. But since it does not have Physical body, we cannot see it easily. But it still has EYES AND EARS AND REPLICA OF PHYSICAL BODY. Since it has some energy it ca be seen as outline but it does not have physical barriers. So it can 'pass through closed doors or walls etc. 

   The angels are nothing but evolved souls , which have some purpose in their life and so have not destroyed their causal body. If one believes in 7 levels of ASTRAL plains, there are close to 7th one - the highest one , but have decided to stay at little bellow that ,sometimes to help , educate , advice etc. One must have Astral body to be functioning and mind , intellect ,and Ego and CHITT are part of astral body. The Astral body is exact replica of Physical body and so it has structure but vey loosely bound and so it does not reflect light to be visible. But it can become visible if it becomes dense . Again this is my thinking. The soul is nothing but the REFLECTION and for the reflection , we need mirror or glass or something  as reflecting surface and that is Causal body . It provides fuel for the causal and astral bodies. 

DO WE HAVE FREE WILL ?

     In past I have talked about Free Will. There is also a debate on Free Will -is it really that Free? Many scientist have tried to do some experiments to show that the Free Will is not that Free. The experiments showed that before someone raises hand ,the decision is ALREADY made . But that is for experiments, and they really do not know the mind . All our legal system and moral laws are based on assumption that we have Free Will . We have a Freedom to drive above speed limit . We have free will to not slap someone or steal from someone etc.So The same is for moral actions and immorality. Cheating someone, infidelity may not be illegal , but may be not moral. But then again if we don't have free will, then we can not be held responsible for our actions. This is assumed but again we also talk about Karma and it's effects and how our present life is result of our past actions. So the question arises if we have our CURRENET path in life is determined by our Karmas from past life, then is there a Free Will , that can change or have effects on our current life's trajectory?

    The answer is Yes and NO. We have certain cards that we are dwelt with in this life and that is based on our pas Karma and the seeds of them that we are born with. But how we PLAY or use the cards is up to us. The karams do not have one to one effect. But the effects are resultants of many factors or effects of many Karmas. So it's not like I know what will be the suffering or the effects is going to be if I steal a pen from my work place. There are many Karmas which have effects - just like saying there are multiple 'pulls' and the direction that is final ,is result of all the 'pulls'. In addition to these Karmic effects , add to that the WILL. If the force of WILL is poor , then the Karmic effects will decide the our Life . And then it feels we have no FREE WILL. But if our desire to change or have willpower is strong, then we CAN CHANGE the direction of our life .Mind you the KARMIC effects are still there , but they will be changed or not as obvious as our life would have been if we did not use FREE WILL . 

    As I have stated in my some of the blogs and You Tube videos, do we have enough time - desire -efforts  and also how strong g is the Karmic effects to begin with - all of this will decide the LIFE - DIRECTION ETC . 

3 GOONAS AND CHANGES IN IT OR AVASTHA -ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE

      We all know 3 Goonas -namely SATVIC , RAJASIK AND TAMASIC. We also know that these are in dormant state after PRALAY or end of universe. and then they start activating at the beginning of the universe .But in doing so they go through some changes and each stage has some meaning ,when we talk about the origin of universe. To me that is fascinating and so I thought of TALKING ABOUT IT IN THIS BLOG. 

   The Vedic religion describes 4 different stages or AVASTHA of the 3 Goonas.These are 1. VISHESH, 2. AVISHESH ,3.LING MATRA , 4 . ALING 

   When UNMANIFESTED UNIVERSE becomes MANIFESTED , something happens. There is a disturbance in the calm state of un manifested. This is called GUNASHOBHINI. Until then the 3 Goonas are in perfect balance and calm. So there is no 'SIGN' of any Goonas. So that is called ALING AVASTHA. ;ALINGA means there is no sign of GOONAS . When the disturbance or imbalance starts , that state is called 'LINGA MATRA  AVASTHA' This means it has SIGN . So that state is called LING MATRA AVASTHA. This leads to origin or beginning of MAHAT TATVA When the universe ENDS with what we call PRALAY , all the livings things go dormant , in a singularity and their all desires are gone with them . We can compared this to FROZEN STATE that now a days some living things are 'kept alive. But since the 3 GOONAS are in balance now there is no movement and so that is called ALING AVASTHA    The 5 Great Elements - MAHABHUTE , 5 organs of Action, 5 Organs of perception and ANATHAKARAN . These 16  things together is called VISHESH AVASTHA of 3 Goonas. The 5 TANMATRA and ASMITA - EGO together these 6 elements is AVISHESH STAGE of 3 Goonas.The PRAKRUTI made of these 6 principles with MAHATATVA is the next stage called LINGMATRA AVASTHA . The state of Original PRAKRUTI -un manifested is the ALING AVASTHA.

   The 3 Goonas give rise to certain thing The TAMOGOON gives rise to 5 TANMATRA , namely words, or sound , touch, look, taste and smell.  

The RAJASIC GOONA gives rise to 5 organs of Action , namely hands . legs , speech, procreation and excretion. 

The SATWIC GOONA gives rise to 5 Organs of Perception, namely eyes, nose for smell, tongue for taste and skin for touch and ears for hearing 

SO at the beginning of the universe , the sequence is ALING AVASTHA TO LING MATRA AVASTHA TO AVIVESH AVASTHA TO VISHESH .   

     The disturbance in singularity leads to origin of MAHAT TARTV which gives rise to ASMITA and then the 3 GOONAS give rise to things that are mentioned above. 

   

EFRTILIZED OVUM AND SOUL

       There has been debate about fertilized egg and life. Now a days we have technology to  get ovum out of human body and the fertilize it out side the body and then stored it for future implantation in uterus. This technology is used when a couple  can not conceive naturally. The re are cases where there is a gap of years not days when the fertilized ovum is not implanted in uterus but continues to be frozen and stored in laboratory. So the question is 'is there a soul in this ovum - is there JIV ?' If there is a soul or JIV in this ovum then what is the fate - what kind of karmic influence caused it to be stored in such a sate , where there is no outlet for satisfying desires or get rid of bad Karma ?

   The answer that I am giving is my own opinion and not sure if everyone will agree. The difficulty is in defining the word SOUL. We know LIFE - JIVA but what exactly is the Hindu concept of JIVA ? What leaves when someone dies? I have talked about in my previous blogs either this one or my other ones BRAINSTORM-AVINASH1.BLOGSPOT.COM or PATANGJALISUTRAYOGA.BLOGSPOT.COM.There is a unit of  Physical Body or STHUL SHARIR, Astral body - SUKSHMA SHARIR and Causal body or KARAN SHARIR and there is reflection of Consciousness ABHAS CHAITANYA . When one dies - what is left is Physical body and the other 2 bodies and the reflected consciousness leave the physical body . This unit is looking for new body to fulfill it's desires and repay the debt. But this unit has Mind -Ego Intellect and so it wants to seek such an environment that will fulfill it's desires. This so called soul or JIVA will SELECT parents and family and circumstances where it can satisfy this. It will not come to any fertilized egg ,unless it is implanted in uterus of human being. So even though there is consciousness pervading EVRYTHING including this fertilized ovum, it is not having so called JIVA. Once this fertilized egg is implanted in uterus -now the unit or JIVA knows what to expect in that life and it will descend or enter the fertilized egg.

   In my thinking JIVA is consciousness - reflected which is ignorant and has itself decided to be confine with the Astral body- Causal body unit and does not realize the FREE nature. So it is confined to THAT BODY.