109-B Millstone Drive
Hillsborough, NC 27278
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Mysterious journey of the soul
Many of us are intrigued about life and death, the soul and the destiny. Especially when we had an experience of a past life regression, the reality of another body, another life can make one very thoughtful.
I had a past life experience of a life in which I had a body of a man. When the experience started, I was a small boy, eight years old. At first I could see myself from the side and observe how I was dressed in brown pants , brown vest, white shirt and had shiny brown shoes. It was an official occasion. In fact, it was a funeral. I saw a young, beautiful woman lying in a coffin, her body covered with blooming red roses. Her face was fresh, her cheeks had a reddish hue, with curly black hair, and she looked as if she was just sleeping. It was my mother in that lifetime. And I immediately got the realization that this is the very same person that is my mother in this life. We have a deep, strong connection, since we know each other for a long time.
After a while I felt I was present in that body of a boy and I was not only observer anymore. That was a fascinating feeling. It was me, the same me, but in a different body. I have a female body in this life, but there I had a male. And yet, the essence of my being was the same.
This essence of one's very self is the soul. The soul does not change when the body changes. In fact, changing the body is like changing the dress for the soul. Since the body is temporary, the soul accepts another body, when the present body is finished.
But why are we sometimes in a male body and sometimes in a female body? That is determined by our mindset at the moment of death. Whatever we think of at that crucial moment will determine where we will go and what will be our next body. And our last thoughts are the culmination of our thinking and willing that we had throughout our life.
The soul is eternal spiritual entity, never dies, and is never born. Being trapped in a material body is like being in a cage. And the soul can get out of that cage, when he gains the knowledge and is able to rise his consciousnes to spiritual consciousness.
Where do we go after death?
Our constant meditation during this lifetime accumulates to influence one’s thoughts at the moment of death. In present life we therefore create our next life.
We carry our different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus we take one kind of body and again quit it to take another
According to the mentality that one develops during present life one receives appropriate body after he quits present body. We have a choice: we can either change our body to a higher grade or we can move to a lower class body. The change the body undergoes depends on us. At the time of death, the consciousness we have created will carry us to the next type of body.
The mind is the cause of our attaining a certain type of body in accordance with our association with material nature. According to one’s mental composition, one can understand what the living entity was in his past life as well as what kind of body he will have in the future. Thus the mind indicates the past and future bodies. So, someone who has spiritual knowledge can uderstand about other people's past lives just by understanding their mental attitudes.
There is an example of a caterpillar, who’s body is transformed into another body even in the same life. The caterpillar is thinking of becoming a butterfly. It meditates like that all the time while in the cocoon. And in the meantime his body changes into a body of a butterfly.
Yet another example is of a dying man, intensely meditating on his beloved wife. By absorbing his consciousness in the female body of his wife he achieves the same form - he becomes a woman in his next life.
When facilitating past life exploration for my clients I witness again and again that the same people that surround one in this life were with him or her in the past as well, but in different relationships and in different bodies. Many times a man and a women, who were in love in past life switch their bodies and the woman becomes the man and vice versa.
Thus one achieves a state of existence according to one's constant concentration.
There are three kinds of destinations for the soul after death:
All these destinations are temporary. Going to heavenly planets is like going for a vacation to Hawaii. We can go there if we have sufficient amount of money in our bank balance ( sufficient good karma). But after our money (good karma) runs out, we have to go back home. In the same way one falls back again from the heavenly planets to the planet earth.
Going to hellish planets is also temporary. One only needs to stay there as long as his bad karma lasts. Once it is extinguished, one comes gradually back to the human form of life to this earth planet.
Human life on planet earth is therefore of extreme importance. Only as a human being we create our good or bad karma and therefore prepare for our future suffering or enjoyment.
There is also one more importance of a human life – in this form we can also prepare ourselves to attain the fourth destination – beyond this material world. This is the destination in the spiritual world, in the kingdom of God.
That supreme abode is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this material world
This abode is self-illumined, shining, ant it is never destroyed. The living beings there live eternal, blissful life in association with the Supreme Lord, in exchange of love with Him. This is our real home, where we belong.
It is extremely important that in the human form of life we get to know about these things and make at least beginning steps on the path back to our eternal home. Even a slight progress on this path can save us from intense suffering.
109-B Millstone Drive
Hillsborough, NC 27278
ph: 919 260 5709
gustinpe