The last blog was completed with the following two questions
- How we can detach ourselves from the body?
- What is the purpose of our life?
Sometimes during our course of life we used to ask ourselves what is the purpose of our life? Why we are born? Because we get stuck in life at some point. We don't find any solutions and we meet a dead end. Why these things happens to us? How we look at life? Or what do you think life is?
We are born. Till some period our parents take care of us. We go to school, college and educate ourselves to face this world alone. We are more influenced by our parents, teachers, friends and relatives. We are also influenced by the place we live in, the surroundings and the people. So based on these we get lot of information and sow all these thoughts as limiting beliefs and we develop an attitude within ourselves and look at the world as we are.
So none of these are controlled by you. It happens as a flow and you are just flowing with the sequence.At young age we are taught that we should study well get high ranks take a high profile job and start earning money till we exist. Parents, Teachers, Friends all of them advice on the same line and we try our best to meet these standards in life. How far we are successful in this young age. Life will be smooth if we study well, getting higher proficiency in studies, Join the best college for the best professional course, get placed in a reputed company with higher salary and a satisfied job. This life phase is the first phase from birth to 24 years of age. If your successful in the first phase, well move on to the second phase. But if we fail in the first phase what happens? Some don't get a good education, not good at studies, Somehow got a degree but no job. Fine Still move on to the second phase.
The second phase is from 24 to 60 years of age. At this phase most of us are either employed or unemployed, get married, have children and earn as much as you can, buy a home, buy lot of materials, get your children married, and get settled in life. OK how many of us are happy at this stage or having troubles at this stage. The third phase is from 60 years till death. Retired life. So life has 3 stages to pass on. The first phase will go smoothly whether we are successful or not. Because whatever happens we will be taken care by our parents. The problem starts only from the second phase. Most of us will not have problems and struggling in all the phases. We will be extremely happy at one phase. Balanced life at one phase and struggling at one phase.
We don't worry much when we are extremely happy and things are moving forward. Getting stuck in life happens only when we struggle very much. When we are fighting it alone without no support. Now why this happens. It all has happened or will happen because of the actions we have performed in our previous life cycle. Nothing good or bad happens based on the deeds and actions we have performed in this birth. We don't know how many births we have taken earlier. What are the karma or the actions performed in the previous births are taken into account. Also karma done by human births are only taken into account. No animals, plants and other living elements except human beings are bonded by their actions or Karma in their previous lives.
So how much human births you have taken, (say you could have ten or fifty or hundred or more), an average of seven births are considered to weigh all the good and bad karma or actions done in these previous births. Based on this average weighed karma, your life is designed in this birth. You have accepted to live this life with the supreme power and you have taken this birth. But you will not remember any of these after you have born because maya (illusions) surrounds you. So you go through all these 3 phases of life either happily, or balanced or struggling.
So now you know, why this life what you are living now is existing like this. Just understand this correctly and accept it as it is as a first step. Because it was you who accepted to live this kind of life on this earth with God based on your previous seven lives Karma. Now we know why this life is so happy or miserable. This is the crux of the problem. This is the root cause. So people should realise that the life what they are living is not what they have achieved. If you are very successful in life please don't think that you made your life successful. Also if you are struggling in life it is not you who have brought this to this stage. It is all predetermined and decided on your course of life.
The Karma (the sown thoughts in our sub conscious from the previous births) we bring into this birth are of three types which is designed to live this life. If you read this blog from the first you will understand that this blog is discussing about how to know the root cause of our problems in life and how to do do a correction. For this we should know
- Why we have born on this earth?
- What is the purpose of our life?
- Who do you think you are?
- How to get detached from this body and other earthly materials?
So many questions to be answered. Now we have got the answer for the first question. We have understood. Why we have born in this world? Now to answer the second question, we should know some life principles before?
Now what are the three types of Karma we have brought with us while we were born?
We will discuss that in the next blog
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