Who are you?
YOU ARE NOT THE BODY BUT A SOUL COVERED IN A MATERIAL BODY.
This is the main teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita.
“As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.” Lord Krishna, Bg. 2.13
You are a soul covered by a material body.
You are bewildered by Maya, the illusion of identifying the self with the body.
In this material body, you will suffer the pangs of birth, old age, disease, and death.
You will reincarnate from body to body, life after life. At death, you will take on another body in the animal kingdom, or again in the human species.
What your next body will be is dependent on your karmic actions (good and bad actions) taken in life.
Just as we change worn-out clothes, furniture, cars, shoes, houses, jobs, and even partners. We will change our bodies at death. Just as a manufacturing company designs products today to make tomorrow. You are designing your next body today with your current actions.
There are 8.4 Million different material bodies that the individual soul keeps circulating in. So don’t get too attached to this body.
Once again you are “too busy” in eating, sleeping, mating, and making a career. Once again you have “no time” to enquire into the absolute truth.
Once again you cling to temporary material enjoyment in your short life span. You keep running like mad after the mirages in the desert, castles made of sand, and the gifts of the Unknown. (Mirages are seeing things that are not there, castles made of sand take hours to make but come down with a single blow).
Most people are very busy in the Modern Lifestyle of partying, discoing, Social media, meat-eating, intoxication, and relationships. While engaging in these demonic activities, you forget the naked truth of death, which you will have to meet.
Like animals, you do not realize that you are going to be slaughtered, by the laws of nature. You are busy with material enjoyment, the so-called jolly life, but actually you are like the chickens, cows, and goats waiting in the slaughterhouse. Death is certain and it can take you at any time. At death, the laws of nature will act, and will you get another body according to your work.
Human birth is rare and now that you have attained a human form of life, you should utilize your developed consciousness to inquire into the Absolute Truth. Yet most humans engage in the lifestyle of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, which is available even in the animal kingdom without the hassle of nine-to-five jobs, marital problems, medical operations, and the bother of tax returns.
A person in the mode of goodness knows that death is born along with his birth. He knows that he is dying at every second. He, therefore, prepares himself for the next life or for liberation from the cycle of birth and death altogether. He inquiries: Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going after this life?
An ignorant person is ‘too busy’ with a materialist life, satisfying only his genitals and belly. He forgets that death is certain and just around the corner. !
Human or animal consciousness?
If you simply eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life. Then you are no different from the animals. The animals also eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life. In fact, if you simply want to engage in these activities, then you are better off in the animal kingdom. The animals engage in all these activities without the bother of jobs, bills, marital problems, and other human conditions of life.
Those humans who spent their life simply eating, sleeping, mating, and enjoying material life will be upgraded to a higher level at death. So they can continue with these activities but without the hassle of jobs, bills, marital problems, and other human conditions of life in their next life. They will be born in the animal kingdom. God is very fair and merciful, he satisfies all our desires. If you behave like an animal then you will be one in your next life, at your own request.
The difference between human and animal consciousness is that humans are inquisitive.
Real human beings enquire:
Who am I?
Where have I come from?
Where am I going after this life?
Who exactly is God?
How can I escape from the cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death?
How can I become immortal?
Animals do not enquire. They simply eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life.
Humans are compassionate, they always think of others. The animals mind their own business and don’t think of others.
Humans are charitable. It is the duty of every human being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of those who are less fortunate with their wealth, intelligence, and words. The animals are not charitable; they simply enjoy everything for themselves.
Are you human or animal?
Human birth is rare - don't waste it.
The Scientific Theory of Evolution – Charles Darwin's Theory
Charles Darwin is famous worldwide for his evolutionary theory. According to his theory, one species evolved into another. Thus one body changes into another. We evolved from the animals, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom are the monkeys.
The Vedic Theory of Evolution :
The Vedic scriptures also state an evolutionary process, but the definition is different from that of Charles Darwin. There are 8.4 million different species of living beings in the whole of creation as follows:
900,000 species of aquatic.
2,000,000 species of plants.
1,100,000 species of insects.
1,000,000 species of birds.
3,000,000 species of beasts.
400,000 species of human beings
All these species were created by God and like Charles Darwin’s theory; we also evolved from the animals but not by changing the same body, but by transmigration of the soul from one body to another.
Changing bodies from birth to death, and the evolution of 8,400,000 species.
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