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Little SwaroopHi,
I am Swaroop's soul. Swaroop means the true divine form of Supreme Lord. Few days back, I reincaranated on this beautiful planet during God - Ganesha's Festival.
You might be wondering, what is reincarnation?
Reincarnation is the passing of the soul from one body to the next. Life is truly a circle of birth, death and re-birth. We never die; we merely change our physical form. Being Human is the highest form of Life on this planet. So why do we keep coming back to life? We are re-born to exhume our Karma. We build our Karma during our life and we must come back to face the reactions to all our actions.
So you still don't believe in
reincarnation?
Well, if you do not believe in
reincarnation, then it means that you believe that we are only born once,
right? If we are only born once, and then surely everyone should be born
equal. By believing in God, we accept that God must be fair, and thus
everyone would be born equal if we only have one chance of life. Well, is
everyone born equal?
- Why are some born healthy and some
diseased?
- Why are some born more fortunate than
others?
- Why are some born ugly and some good
looking?
- Why do some children suffer from birth and die at very young age?
Now that you accept everyone is not born equal. So how does God decide on the above matters for us? Well, God's decisions are based on knowing our history, our previous lives. God is very fair, God does not make us happy for no reason, and God does not make us suffer for no reason. Based on our Karmic actions, some people are happy because they have good Karma and are now facing good reactions to their good actions taken in their past. Some people suffer because they have bad Karma and are now facing bad reactions to their bad actions taken in their past.
A person is born again and again to reap the fruits of his or her own actions. This cycle of birth and death continues until the person attains moksha or freedom from the cycle of birth and death.
"As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones." Lord Krishna (Bhagvad Geeta 2.22)
As per YOGA - Why am I here ?
YOGA Given the immanent and eternal presence of the Divine, what should a soul do during this incarnation? What is right thought, word and deed? This is the subject of yoga, the practices that lead to union with the Divine. The yogi becomes a master through long repetition and expanding knowledge of spiritual practices such as jnana yoga, the path of union through knowledge, raja yoga or the path of realization through meditation and psychic control, bhakti yoga, the path of realization through love and devotion; and karma yoga, the path of union through work. Yoga provides specific practices including meditations, prayers, chants, physical exercises (hatha yoga) and breath control (pranayam) which all aid in developing spiritual understanding.
The guru or master teacher continues an ancient tradition dating back to the Vedas. Gurus choose to transmit the teachings as a further stage in their spiritual progression. Like the Boddhisattva in Buddhist traditions, some gurus even choose to return through several incarnations to continue to transmit the spiritual teachings to succeeding generations.
Arjuna asks Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita a troubling question: "Suppose a man has faith, but does not struggle hard enough? His mind wanders away from the practice of yoga and he fails to reach perfection. What will become of him then?...Is he not lost, as a broken cloud is lost in the sky?"
Sri Krishna answered: "No, my son. That man is not lost, either in this world or the next. No one who seeks Brahman ever comes to an evil end. Even if a man falls away from the practice of yoga, he will still win the heaven of the doers of good deeds, and dwell there many long years. After that, he will be reborn into the home of pure and prosperous parents. He may even be born into a family of illumined yogis. He will then regain that spiritual discernment which he acquired in his former body; and so he will strive harder than ever for perfection...By struggling hard, and cleansing himself of all impurities, that yogi will move gradually toward perfection through many births, and reach the highest goal at last."