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My dear friends and like minded persons,

Most of you are in touch with me, perhaps for over three decades and receiving my mails/news from time to time on different subjects. I really do not know what messages I could convey and in what way they are helpful to most of you in day to day life or for self realization. One of my friend has put me a question which is reproduced hereunder and may I request you to kindly through some attention and support me to answer the gentleman in a convincing manner?.

“”””””I have always wondered how the soul begins its journey on this planet (of course keeping in mind at the background about the Maaya that always explains this universe). I have tried to explore for a scientific Mechanism and fuse it with our philosophy.

Sperm and ovum both are living cells, but, do not have their own souls because they represent two different individuals. When they fuse and form the zygote that represents the third individual. I suppose a soul enters that zygote as soon as it is formed by fertilization. How that soul enters that zygote, who determines which soul has to enter that Zygote and according to what priorities is a mystery. Probably, millions of souls would be waiting to take birth to undergo the results of their praarabdha karma. Those souls which have completed their karma attain moksha or nirvaana.

Probably, there is a natural order which is determined and set by the almighty that keeps functioning in a self regulated fashion. Probably, these waiting souls have to follow a discipline in taking rebirths and if they violate the discipline or the order (I do not know if this happens), then, they face consequences. I am inclined to think this way when I look at the millions of spontaneous miscarriages and congenital Abnormalities, neonatal and childhood deaths that take place in this world. The other example is of those one or two survivors in earthquakes or other such calamities where hundreds and thousands perish.

I have also wondered how some people can remember about their previous births. I think if a soul enters a zygote almost immediately (or within a short interval) after it has exited a mortal body, probably, it can remember the previous birth. That is a very difficult thing because we can not remember what we have eaten only three days ago! But, we can

Remember certain incidences from our childhood vividly and there must be a mechanism. Buddha said the bundle of memories(soul according to Hindu philosophy) keeps acquiring new memories and keeps taking births and that probably explains how a soul can remember the past(although we do not still know the precise mechanism).

Probably, the day may not be very far off, when with the help of the genes; we may be able to predict even the future of an individual (not just the medical facts). But, that may still not solve the mystery of Our life.”””””””

I look forward to your reply eagerly when I may sum them up and reproduce the text for your convenient reading. Affly Yours HARA HARA MAHADEVA DR P V SESHA SAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI 13th July 2006

 

 

 

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Dear Sir,

 

Pranam. I have read in the Upanishads that the soul occupies the

foetus in the second month of pregnancy. I may be wrong about the

time but I definitely remember that this event happens a long time

after fertilisation.

 

Again the Upanishads declare that rebirth is almost instantaneous,at

least as per our worldly time schedule, as the soul travels to

another birth like the worm that catches hold of another tuft of

grass right after it has left one. Our actions in this birth pull us

into the next one.

 

It is only the very fortunate who get a human life, and they are more

so who get a defect free body. This can be explained by the karma

theory. Early deaths may mean either an unfortunate soul or a high

soul who takes a temporary body to deal with the small amount of

residual action left over before achieving moksha.

 

Though past life memories are within us, it is very difficult for an

ordinary person to access them unless they are extremely pleasant or

extremely unpleasant, thus leaving a very deep impression. A study of

reincarnation cases shows that people who die of accidents or are

murdered etc. in their past lives carry either the memory or the

related phobia in the next life. Again we see lovers being united.

 

It is also written in the scriptures that just prior to moksha the

person remembers all his previous births. This may also happen after

God realisation and when the person becomes jivan mukta.

 

Genes are not static but constantly change responding to the internal

and external environment as is being revealed from genetic studies.

Therefore seeking answers from genetics may not be possible.

 

It is not always advisable to find a reason for everything in this

seemingly chaotic universe. There are so many loose threads and

questions we cannot easily answer. Therefore the scriptures ask us to

have faith and proceed. Maybe it is God's wish that many things are

kept from us. We are already seeing how mankind is utilising whatever

knowledge it possesses.

 

Love & Regards,

Jagannath.

, Dr Perisepalli Venkata

Sesha Sai <aswamedhayaagam wrote:

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> My dear friends and like minded persons,

> Most of you are in touch with me, perhaps for over three decades

and receiving my mails/news from time to time on different

subjects. I really do not know what messages I could convey and in

what way they are helpful to most of you in day to day life or for

self realization. One of my friend has put me a question which is

reproduced hereunder and may I request you to kindly through some

attention and support me to answer the gentleman in a convincing

manner?.