The descent of the jivatman has been explained in brief. However, it is not the whole story or the complete one. The divine will, or the advent of the soul as a journey through earth, or the secret behind this birth and death, has been explained in these blogs earlier. There are the garbhopanishat, the atmopanishat, the koushitaki upanishat and other sources where these secrets are available. The return journey of the soul is also explained in these scriptures. Kathopanishat and the koushitaki upanishat are the important ones.
When a person is ageing through, little does he foresee the situation he/she may have to face within the next few years, if not a decade. One has to be very vigilant and that is the wisdom, viveka. Life teaches many lessons but people either forget or do not pay attention to these. These days it has become a fashion to drink, dine, and dance little knowing the devil lurching in the corner, called old age, sickness, and death. People do not care and, as a result, suffer and make their dependents or family members suffer. A person lying in coma or paralysed may not be experiencing pain, but his family members suffer a hell due to this foolish person. People who go on a short journey to a different place take so much precaution and pack things carefully, get their reservation tickets booked. But, here is a long journey and no preparation is not even contemplated upon!
We have to take to spiritual path at the earliest since it is the only saviour. People who over-indulge in sensuous pleasures such as drinks, rajasic food, and gossip and waste their valuable time after Sixty are doomed to suffer a hell after Seventies. Suddenly, the physical body becomes weak; nerves start loosening grip, their tenacity, and create nervous problems. Dementia, alzheimer's, paralysis and coma sets in any time and make life miserable.
Here is the need for satsang, scriptural studies (nidhidhyasana), dhyana, dharana, and contemplation, Once the person takes to yoga, these problems will not touch the person. There comes a tranquil mind with samadhi. The jiva rests in peace and the Lord takes over the affairs of the jiva that surrenders to Hi.
As soon as the person leaves his/her last breath, the name, form and function are all forgotten by the nearest ones and dearests and jiva becomes body and addresses as such. They keep the body outside as soon as possible and try to perform all the crematory functions and feel relieved, as if a big burden is relieved. This is the attitude of the people whom he loved and served all his life? Some family members will be waiting for the Will, if any, or the key bunch and Pass Books and Check books and do not hesitate to fight in front of the dead body also!. The soul is a meek witness to all these.
The tragedy is that the soul is not completely free although its body is discarded. It is full of vasanas, karma kleshas and desires. It seeks to take birth in the family within the next fifteen days! Many people who have died with unfulfilled desires and attachments to property, children or the grand children get into the food of the nearest family members who are hosting them and appear within ten months in the family!. Some who are not lucky to regain human form may even come as pets- cats and dogs and sit on the sofa or laps of the loved ones! A yogi can foresee all these in samprajnyata samadhi.
What is already told by Shree Krishna and other Sages in the Upanishads will not be repeated here. However, it suffices to state that not even one soul out of a hundred million will ever leave the earth's atmosphere, and only 0.1% of these millions who are dead will ever reach the lunar sphere (chandra loka) only to return to earth to run the mill again. One or two jivas that take to yoga and shed all attachments, desires, and attain mukti, liberation (jivanmukti) while alive here, will cross the boundary of the solar sphere and reach their 'Father in Heaven', a Star as a stellar dust, in its primeval state. That is the end of the journey of that jiva. It will never come back. punarjanma na vidyate |
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