Life is an eternal journey and we are all passengers. The train of life is a long ,long one with varieties of Bogies and compartments, including some luggage vans! Passengers enter in and get out of these with their bags and baggage. Some travel First, some Second AC or 3rd AC, some in Resrved Compartments, and mostly others in sleeper classes. Everyone is in tension, anxiety, worries bother them, but a few lucky ones are enjoying the window seats and the beauty of nature unaware of the goings on inside. Some make friends and become, even life-partners! No wonder the journey is full of stories and surprises! People are moving, moving, and moving on!
The reality is different! The Train of Life, a Path of Journey of life of nara manava, is 'Narayana'. This is "Ananta", endless! there is no beginning or end to this and there is not even a sense of direction, although Dhruva, North Star, is said to be the goal? Now, the Darwin or Neo-Darwin theory tells us about the evolution of mankind. The Vedic doctrines tell us that the supreme Lord only manifests, just appears and disappears in varied forms! Whatever, once the jiva appears on this earth as a living creature, it has to undergo the transformation from its pristine pure form to the the one acquired by it under the influence of the Prakruti, nature. The jiva lives on food and works to get food. The entire life is one of ignorance. The jiva forgets its pure and pristine state of the Atman and suffers the trouble and turmoil of the physical body afflictions! Hence the Body is different and the soul, Atman, that supports it is different. The ten sense organs, the mind, the intellect, the ego and the chitta of whimsical vibrant mind- full of desires, thoughts, ideas, dreams, aspirations and the like make it feel suffer or enjoy! This enjoyment and suffering ends with the annihilation of the mind.
Now, the jiva undergoes the mill, experience of life in different forms and comes to some conclusion! Most of the jivas feel disgusted of life and even terminate life in the middle by commit of suicide. But, a few jivas take this opportunity to turn to search for real meaning of existence and take to spiritual practice and attain eternal joy, peace, brahmn.
As to the different stations of life, it may be the childhood, youth, gruhasta, vanaprastha or, even sanyasa. These different stages, stations are not of one life, but each one carried over several lives! One life span is 80 yrs on average and the jiva may take ten lives in 800 years! We have seen some people are childish throughout life. They take life as a child's play. Some become very mature and serious at the very beginning as a child and some become highly mature like Shankara, Ramakrishna! Hence, each jiva undergoes the mill, experience and finally reach the mature, ripe old spiritual life! Some may be at the end and most of the jivas maybe just at the beginning of the scale of evolution with animal propensity, just adhering to prana and physical conditions of life! Mental development may not have taken place, yet! Most of these jivas are just toiling to eke out a living unaware of the larger, more satisfying, spiritual goals! This is just like a journey that starts from Kanyakumari to reach Badrinath or Kedarnath and Kailas or Vaikuntha! They are on the move!
Now, the jiva undergoes the mill, experience of life in different forms and comes to some conclusion! Most of the jivas feel disgusted of life and even terminate life in the middle by commit of suicide. But, a few jivas take this opportunity to turn to search for real meaning of existence and take to spiritual practice and attain eternal joy, peace, brahmn.
As to the different stations of life, it may be the childhood, youth, gruhasta, vanaprastha or, even sanyasa. These different stages, stations are not of one life, but each one carried over several lives! One life span is 80 yrs on average and the jiva may take ten lives in 800 years! We have seen some people are childish throughout life. They take life as a child's play. Some become very mature and serious at the very beginning as a child and some become highly mature like Shankara, Ramakrishna! Hence, each jiva undergoes the mill, experience and finally reach the mature, ripe old spiritual life! Some may be at the end and most of the jivas maybe just at the beginning of the scale of evolution with animal propensity, just adhering to prana and physical conditions of life! Mental development may not have taken place, yet! Most of these jivas are just toiling to eke out a living unaware of the larger, more satisfying, spiritual goals! This is just like a journey that starts from Kanyakumari to reach Badrinath or Kedarnath and Kailas or Vaikuntha! They are on the move!
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