Monday, August 01, 2005

A life reborn but shorn of reason

Each one of us is the effect of the infinite past. This is the law of Karma. Each one of us is born into this world to work out our past deeds. Each one of us is the maker of his own fate. In effect, I alone am responsible for what I suffer or enjoy today. In that event, a question surfaces on my mind. Why don't we hold onto our memories as we travel from one shore to the other? Why is the connection with our past disconnected once we move into another form? If I'm conscious of my past lives, I would desist in doing just what led me to my fate today. Will that not take me closer to the Infinite faster by making me able to build on my knowledge steadily? Will God not want that Himself?

It will be interesting to think how this could be achieved. Maybe we could suspend our learning while being in a void between giving up one life form, going to heaven to enjoy the fruits of our good deeds and then falling back to earth into another birth. Once into a definite form, we could restart our journey (unless ofcourse if we are a species that is inherently lazy in which case we will be human, we might then want to procrastinate OR a species that cannot think in which case we will not be human) This is where lies the solution. Only in the human form can we truly liberate ourselves from the web of illusion. And by the time we'll get into another human form, it will be a million years. So, start now!

1 Comments:

Blogger Viola said...

Well...holding onto past memories may actually be detrimental for charting out ones life in the new life...cuz u see our past actions n reactions cannot be seen in isolation from the objective others whom they have been directed towards... nor from the intersubjective worldview of that life...
Thus whereas i completely agree to ur view that"only in the human form can we truly liberate ourselves from the web of illusion"..in my view this can be done only when the person has knowledge of the illusionary nature of the world around him/her...for which he/she has to just step out from/cast off the illusions and thus perceive them...now the nature of the illusions will vary in content...from one life to the other...the form may remain the same but to know the content needs to be identified...to liberate onself off it...hence one need not know the past actions...knowledge of the present and realization of the content of itz illusionary nature will... lead to liberation...ur commentz dear blogger are welcome

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