Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Thursday, January 20, 2011

Past Lives Reincarnation - Just A Myth?

By Julian McCartney


Past lives reincarnation is the journey of our soul from life to death and then life again. Reincarnation if taken in the literal form means, to be in the form of flesh again. It is the core of the term 'eternal life'. It is a belief which states that a component of our living being is reborn after death to be in the new physical body. This component is nothing but our immortal spirit or soul.

Mostly, you will find individuals who believe that past lives reincarnation is a process that will go on forever. But, many are of the view that this journey of the spirit through birth, life and death and rebirth is actually the journey of the soul from a stage of darkness to the final state of spiritual enlightenment. However, a question that keeps on lingering in our mind is why the soul needs to go through this journey of past lives reincarnation?

There are people who are immensely interested in this subject and have undertaken studies and research on this having found to an extent answer to this lingering question. According to them, the answer is that our soul goes through different sorts of experiences with each lifetime. Each life is a manifestation of it, an expression of creativity. It helps the soul to learn more and proceed towards greater spiritual wisdom.

The basis of this finding is that we will go on through this process of past lives reincarnation until we are able to set our souls free from the delusion that separate us from god. There exists usually, three renowned paths to do that. One of them is the Bhakti yoga which is the path of complete submission or devotion. The other one is Jnana yoga or the path which will help us to gain knowledge and the third one is Karma yoga or the path or service.

Be it Bhakti yoga, Jnana yoga or Karma yoga all the three lead to the same destination of unification with God, or in other words achieving the highest spiritual knowledge and attaining everlasting peace and happiness. But, regardless of the path we follow, it is our decisions, our choices and the experiences that we have that describes us and also sets out our limitation. Thus, we stay away from unison with God.

The day we learn to accept what God has given us and start to live on that, we will completely trust Him. This will eventually lead us to the path of self acceptance and thus we will gain peace in our heart. The peace will help us to increase the desire within us to make others happy thus, we will be able to understand to what great capacity our heart can go of loving others and also caring for them So, we will move towards the path of freeing ourselves from past lives reincarnation.

In the writings of sages, prophets and philosophers, from different countries and cultures, we can find reference to past lives reincarnation and the concept behind it. Mostly, the Eastern philosophy speaks about the principle of past lives reincarnation but you can also find many Westerners also believing in it, although majority of them do not have faith in this concept.

The ancient Egyptian civilization was built upon the foundation of reincarnation. The ancient Greek historian by the name of Herodotus who belonged from the fifth century says, ""The Egyptians propounded the theory that the human soul is imperishable, and that where the body of any one dies it enters into some other creature that may be ready to receive it." Moreover, even Plato an ancient Greek philosopher, famous writer and mathematician says on this, "Soul is older than body. Souls are continually born over and over again into this life." We will find that three fourths of the Asian population are a strong believers of the concept of past lives reincarnation.




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