A Victim of affection

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Humble Pranams at the divine lotus feet Of our beloved Bhagawan, Continued..................... The yamadutas replied,"The sun,fire,sky,air,demigods,moon,evening,day,night,the directions,water ,land,and the Super soul or the Lord within the heart,all witness the activities of everyone.The candidates for punishmnet in the cycle of birth and death are those who are confirmed by these witnesses to have deviated from their religoius duties. In Proportion to the extent of one's religious or irrelegious actions in this life,one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of Karma in the next." Originally the living beings exist in the spiritual world as eternal servants of God.But when they give up the service of the Lord,they must enter the material universe,comprised of the three modes of nature -goodness,passion,and

ignorance.The Yamadutas explained that the living beings who desire to enjoy this material world come under the control of the modes and,according to their specific relationship with these modes,acquire suitable material bodies.A being in the mode of goodness obtains the body of a demigod,one in the mode of passion takes birth as a human,and one in the mode of ignorance enters the lower species. All of these bodies are like the bodies we experience in dreams.When a man goes to sleep,he forgets his real identity and may dream that he has become a king.He canot remember what he was doing before he went to sleep,nor can he imagine what he will do upon waking.In the same way,when a soul identifies with a temporary ,material body,he forgets his real,spiritual identity,as well as any previous lives in the material world,although most souls in a human body have already transmigrated through all

8,40,000 species of life. "The Livng entity thus transmigrates from one material body to another in uman life,animal life,and life as demigod," the yamadutas said."when the living entity gets the body of a demigod,he is very happy. When he gets a human body, he is sometimes happy and sometimes sad.And when he gets the body of an animal,he is always fearful.In all conditions ,how everr,he suffers terribly,experiencing birth,death,disease,and oldage.His miserable condition is called Samsaara or transmigration of the soul through diferent species of material life. "The foolish embodied living entity,"the Yamadutas continued,"unable to control his senses or his mind,is forced to act according to the influence of the modes of material nature,even against his own desires.He is like a silkworm that uses its saliva to create a cacoon and then becomes trapped in it.The

living entity traps himself in a network of his own fruitive activities and then can find no way to free himself. Thus he is always bewildered and repeatedly dies and is reborn. "Because of his tense material desires," said the Yamadutas," a Living entity takes birth in a particular family and recieves a body like that of either the mother or the father.That body is an indication of his past and future bodies,just as one springtime is an indication of past and future springtimes." To be continued............... Jai Sai Ram.