SOME THOUGHTS ON REINCARNATION,REBIRTH,DEATH ETC----9

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HARI OMRebirth involves sorrow and suffering. Moreover rebirth by itself is transient in nature. " Great souls who have attained perfection and who reach God are no more subjected to rebirth", declares the Lord in Bagavad Gita.( MAM UPETYA PUNAR JANMA DUHKHALAYAM ASASWATAM NAAPNUVANTI MAHATMANAH SAMSIDDHIM PARAMAM GATHAH). The transmigration of an individual soul from one species of life to another under the influence of Karma can not cease till it has attained God. This transmigration is called rebirth. There is no species of life whatsoever which is not full of

sorrow and sorrow alone from the time of entering the womb till death. The statement that great souls who have realized God are never reborn indicates that other souls are subject to rebirth. The Lord asserts in the Gita,"MAM UPETYA TU KAUNTEYA PUNARJANMA NA VIDYATE". It means that for those who reach Me (GOD), there is no rebirth. Why so? The all powerful God, the Supreme Brahman is wholly beyond birth and death. The process of His Avatars is not identical with that of the Jiva or individual soul. God simply enacts the sport of birth in order to draw and attract the mind of His devotees through His divine sports( Leela). The Lord has also stated in the Gita that he who comes to know the truth that Lord`s birth and activities are Divine , in reality goes to HIM on leaving his body." JANMA KARMA CHA ME DIVYAMEVAM YO VETTHI TATWATAH TYAKTWA DEHAM PUNARJANAM NA ETI MAMAETI SAH ARJUNA". The point which is of sought to be stressed here is that after death he does not return to this mortal world, but goes to the Lord`s Supreme abode.G.Balasubramanian