When we observe nature closely, we realize nature is an open book, and all its secrets are available for anyone to learn. What is needed is the proper perspective and a certain level of awareness. I like to believe rebirth is an experiential reality, and we experience it daily.
Let's explore.
We are made up of a certain mindset, specific mental patterns, and a certain mental impurity, making us behave in particular ways; this defines who we are.
When we are sucked into sleep at night, the world does not exist for us even though the world exists for everyone else. Our minds, memories, and thoughts don't exist; we don't exist; nothing exists when we are in a deep sleep. This is called interim death.
When we wake up the next day, are we different, or are we the same person? For most people, the answer is we are the same person. That's right, because we woke up from hibernation, all our memories, mindset, mental habits, and mental impurities now start to function as is. We experience ourselves the same way before we were sucked into sleep. This is called interim rebirth.
Remember, our mind never ages; only our body ages. When the body becomes old, and we die, it is similar to being sucked into sleep or death. The law of destiny or niyati sets in motion and takes over our being and decides how and when we will take rebirth.
It is essential to know who takes the rebirth. The impure mind, with all its tendencies, takes the rebirth, and our current-life personality won't.
Understand this; our current-life personality is the mixture of our impure state of mind + {the genes of our current parents, + our environment}. It is essential to understand that even though our current life personality won't take the rebirth, the law of Niyati doesn't allow us to escape the suffering of our bad deeds.
Let's understand this with an example.
When we play a particular video game, we have an unlimited lifeline in our hands. We start playing with level one, and subsequently, we move up to higher levels as we develop skills. We can become better at the game only when our skills improve, and our skills can only improve when we consciously learn with awareness. If we die with a pro skill set, we will start the same game with a pro-level skill and never with an expert-level skill set. During this process, we die multiple times and are reborn again to play the same game with the same skill sets. We progress only while playing the game.
But, Why this process of taking rebirth?
Let's look at a simple example to understand this.
There is a lake full of pure water. Take some of this pure water into a container, and add mud (impurities) to this pure water, and now this pure water in the container has become impure.
Transfer this impure water into a differently-shaped container, this time we have a choice to either add a more impure substance or a substance that will purify the water. Now, we can repeat the process of changing this water into differently shaped containers. If we add purifying substance the chances are we'll get purified water the same as it was when it was first taken out.
(1) Pure water Lake = Pure Consciousness (non-dual state)
(2) Impure water = Impure mind (individual consciousness, or jiva or soul)
(3) Container = Body (it can be human, an animal, or any other species depending on the type of impurities we hold and our willingness to move forward towards the purification process)
(4) Water transfer process = rebirth in different forms depending on the strength and quality of impurity of mind. This transfer process is a cosmic algorithm that decides everything, just like we have blockchain algorithm, once penned it does its work accurately and efficiently.
(5) Impure substances = Mental impurities we imbibe while interacting with society. We make it our own because we are unaware it is impure. Anger, arrogance/unhealthy identity, lust/unhealthy desires, greed, addictions/ unhealthy attachments, laziness, and jealousy. E.g. Alcohol does not feel impure unless it kills our organs and ultimately kills our identity.
(6) Pure substances = Qualities of the Heart. Developing and strengthening and expressing the qualities of the heart is the purifying substance.
Cosmic Algorithm = Spiritual law, i.e. the law of karma along with the law of niyati aka destiny.
An important thing to understand is that nature has allowed us to reshape our life again to better ourselves. With a newer body, new parents, new environment, and new circumstances, we get a unique chance to change our old mental patterns and work on removing our mental impurities. The process of Yoga practices is to help us become better humans by identifying our mental impurities and removing them consciously from our being.
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