In Mahabharata, while guiling their days away in the forest, Darapadhi, Bheema, and Yudhistra had an argument. It was during that argument that Darupadhi came up with an example that illustrated the phenomeon of rebirth, or Janam Chakra.
She asked the question how an animal's new born baby knows to run and suck its mother's udders even moments after his birth?
She answered that it was impossible for a new born fawn or calf to have this knowledge unless it had already taken a birth in this world before. Every being had already taken birth in the world, and this showed that beings came to the world again and again.
She asked the question how an animal's new born baby knows to run and suck its mother's udders even moments after his birth?
She answered that it was impossible for a new born fawn or calf to have this knowledge unless it had already taken a birth in this world before. Every being had already taken birth in the world, and this showed that beings came to the world again and again.
It can be due to programmed genes also. Its like saying how the liver knows which enzyme to secrete or the the stomach knows it needs to be acidic.
ReplyDeleteyes! It is memory , and memory is always of a past event. The programming concept of memory was not there in the times of Mahabharat.
ReplyDeleteEvery Jeevatma (soul) is supposed to be immortal which carries forward all balance of past karmas & its consequences along with the subtle nature,mind & intellect just like we carry all the data in a chip or pen-drive.
ReplyDeleteSo, in this example of a calf, this calf could have taken various different Janma's, including perhaps that of a human being, and including certainly that of a cow in many of the previous lifetimes?
ReplyDeleteIs this true then:
As per the Law of Karma, you may be priviledged to be reborn as a human only if you have performed exemplary Karma in previous lifetime, as human is supposedly the highest of the life forms?
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ReplyDeleteWe know that every Soul is immortal, so it carries it's past karma and consequences there of in next birth in human or any other form. Like other energies, it can not be destroyed, it can change from one form to another. Similarly our Jeevatma too takes another body form after leaving present one. This is the theory of rebirth with our previous Kara's and effects there of.
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