Some thoughts on Reincarnation or Rebirth, Karma---7

July 4, 2009

Hari OM

Generally speaking,it is one`s nature which determines the last thoughts at the time of death and according to that last thought or desire the subtle body is formed. The Jivatma leaves a worn-out gross body carrying the subtle and causal bodies with it and enters into a new gross body suited to the subtle body so that it can exhaust the accumulated

Vasanas or Sanchita Karmas. It is thus clear that change takes place in all the three bodies-gross,subtle and causal.

Sookshma Sareera or subtle body in the stricter scientific terminology of Vedanta does survive physical death and manufactures new physical bodies for itself, says Yama, god of Death in the Katopanishad. The impelling force for this is provided by the actions it had done and the knowledge it had gained in its previous life. The impelling force is also known as Vasana or Samskar, innate tendency or disposition which may be said to constitute the subconscious and unconsciousnessof modern psychology. Yatha Karma Yatha Srutam, says Yama in Katopanishad. Srutam

here means the state of man`s awareness resulting from the deposits of life`s experiences , the level at which Consciouness functions. Karma here means fruits of actions. Every action produces a change in the ratio of forces of the inner world of the doer. This reveals action as an educative force, as a character-formimg force. Such education may be wholesome or unwholesome depending on the knowledge or awareness generated, says Vedanta.

Samsara (Transmigration)means repetitive experience of worldliness. The sense-bound man after experiencing the pleasure, power and knowledge available in his sense-bound existence turns his attention to the supersensual viz., God . That is the line of his further evolution. If he does not proceed in that line it will not be growth and evolution but stagnation and death for him according to Vedanta. Samsara also means continued movement with no spiritual progress and in which man experiences in variable sequence the three 'e's viz., entertainment, excitement and exhaustion. The Upanishads consider this as spiritual death of man. Samasara therefore refers to the wheel of birth and death caused by Karma or effect of actions.

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian

July 6, 2009

Ohm Namahshivaya,

The actions of humanbeings on earth depend upon the destiny, or you may call it planetary movement. For other beings there is no scope to become good or to do punya. In such a case how these creatures liberate themselves? I agree to some extent Balasubramanian's theory that ones nature determines the thought process at the time of death. But I am unable to comprehend that how the subtle body is formed according to thought and when this body is formed, Before death or after death?

D.M.M.RAO--- On Sat, 4/7/09, G Balasubramanian <gbsub wrote:

G Balasubramanian <gbsub Some thoughts on Reincarnation or Rebirth, Karma---7 Cc: USBrahmins , Aryakrishti-Vedic-Dharma , "Bhagavataseva Bagavataseva" <BhagavataSeva >Saturday, 4 July, 2009, 5:40 PM

Hari OM

Generally speaking,it is one`s nature which determines the last thoughts at the time of death and according to that last thought or desire the subtle body is formed. The Jivatma leaves a worn-out gross body carrying the subtle and causal bodies with it and enters into a new gross body suited to the subtle body so that it can exhaust the accumulated Vasanas or Sanchita Karmas. It is thus clear that change takes place in all the three bodies-gross, subtle and causal.

Sookshma Sareera or subtle body in the stricter scientific terminology of Vedanta does survive physical death and manufactures new physical bodies for itself, says Yama, god of Death in the Katopanishad. The impelling force for this is provided by the actions it had done and the knowledge it had gained in its previous life. The impelling force is also known as Vasana or Samskar, innate tendency or disposition which may be said to constitute the subconscious and unconsciousnessof modern psychology. Yatha Karma Yatha Srutam, says Yama in Katopanishad. Srutam here means the state of man`s awareness resulting from the deposits of life`s experiences , the level at which Consciouness functions. Karma here means fruits of actions. Every action produces a change in the ratio of forces of the inner world of the doer. This reveals

action as an educative force, as a character-formimg force. Such education may be wholesome or unwholesome depending on the knowledge or awareness generated, says Vedanta.

Samsara (Transmigration) means repetitive experience of worldliness. The sense-bound man after experiencing the pleasure, power and knowledge available in his sense-bound existence turns his attention to the supersensual viz., God . That is the line of his further evolution. If he does not proceed in that line it will not be growth and evolution but stagnation and death for him according to Vedanta. Samsara also means continued movement with no spiritual progress and in which man experiences in variable sequence the three 'e's viz., entertainment, excitement and exhaustion. The Upanishads consider this as spiritual death of man. Samasara therefore refers to the wheel of birth and death caused by Karma or effect of actions.

(to be continued)

G.Balasubramanian

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