Do we plan our Life before Birth

Modern research in field of quantum physics has proved that We planned our life before arriving on earth. We definitely choose our Mother. We make a broad blue print of our life, along with major obstacles, in form of certain hard hitting situations, people and  also if our past good karma allows, some loving people, luxuries also, before taking birth. 

Even before we were born, we have sat down and decided our family life. You know, what will be your life like on earth in advance .  Some like it easy. Some plan challenges coz it means more achievements. The whole family sat down and planned it together. Of course we could plan with only those with whom we had any emotional entanglement of either Love or abhorrence in previous life. No wonder we feel attracted towards some stranger or feel repelled by a close relative.  

Based on our past karmic debts, we plan our future life, with help of set of Counsellors, Spirit guides etc before taking birth.  We all come to repay and also to receive and grow in the process.  We all come with a purpose. But on earth, we forget. If we stay in touch with Divinity, we are often reminded of our plan through out intuition, inner wisdom and outside reminders also. But majority are disconnected with their own inner core. They forget their real purpose and waste a lifetime.  Only to take another birth, this time with low score card. 

Yes, earth is a school. We have come here to learn and grow through our understanding, experiences and knowledge addition which is possible only because we are humans.  However, if you look around or read newspapers,  in this Iron age, human behaviour is worse than animals in so many places.  Immorality has increased manifold. Cheating, fraud, murders etc are all common and now war. Humanity has degraded.  

Next time you see someone suffering, understand that its that individual's own past misdoing.  People argue, what's a child fault in this. When we do something unawares or have repented our misdeed already, we repay it unawares. A child is unaware, a mental person is unaware.  A blind is not aware and so on. We suffer or enjoy the most, in full awareness.  When we are of prime age.  A 10 yrs old child cannot enjoy kingdom but a 40 yrs old will know what being king means.  Debt has to be cleared. The one who hurts these, also has to payback ultimately. Age has nothing to do with it. 

This is a vicious cycle, understanding laws of karma, helps us escape this cycle. We come out of it, if we know how it works.  So we need to plan our next life, with full awareness of these Universal Laws which are same for all.  For what we understand properly, gets embedded in our psych, and after we die, it goes with our causal body. We start our next lifetime with this knowledge despite forgetting our life plan.  We start from where we ended. We need not relearn, what we have already learnt. It's imprint is already in our subconscious.  If we have already learnt that killing is bad, we won't even think of killing anyone.  We go to bank for transactions only. We have no intention of robbing it since we have already learnt this lesson. 

At planning stage, Soul doesn't understand pain or pleasure.  It needs to grow with each lifetime.  So without thinking how it is going to affect the emotions, It plans according to what it needs to learn. We ourselves decide what we want to repay first and how we will do that.  Different lesson or multiple lessons in each lifetime.  Spiritual growth usually comes after a hard time - failure, illness, death of a loved one etc  This set back, if handled properly, gives learnings of many many lifetimes in one lifetime itself. Hence many courageous souls, come with very tough life plan.  And when faced with tough situation, it wonders, why it happened to me. Well, you invited it. 

Tough events bring big change in our lives which will elevate our souls to higher level. Thats what a soul wants.  We cannot judge level of a Soul based on its earth conditions in this life time.  A poor may be a very high level old Soul just finishing off his karmic debt and a wealthy person could be a new soul just starting to build a huge karmic debt.  Therefore we should  never Judge anyone.  We don't know karmic baggage of anyone.  

Our purpose on earth is to understand our true nature and realise our true potential.  Connect to that spark ⚡️ of divinity within ⭐️   We all are Divine.  We all are growing. But some grow very fast.  While some are still 'sleeping' and have no clue.  Tough situations are planned by us to shake us out of our slumber and to make us aware of our true nature.  To take us into Self Inquiry mode which brings us closer to our own divinity or else one life goes waste. 

Wise say do not get elated during happy times and do not feel miserable during sad times. Stay in state of equanimity.  सम भाव से ज़िंदगी की हर परिस्थिति का सामना करो और आगे बढ़ो।  कहीं भी अटको मत।

Vandana Mulchandani 

25 July 2022

Why to take birth if its suffering.

Brahma Kumaris have explained it so well. Heaven is like living comfortably on 20th floor.  And earth is ground floor.  A kid watches it from above and sees people laughing, running, playing and even fight below.  Wants to go down to play. Parents tell him he might get hurt but he is getting bored.

Goes down. ..enjoys life for sometime but then starts seeing things at closer level and he also starts getting hurt.  He  wants to go back . But has to stay till evening.  When he goes back. His elders heal him. He takes rest.

 For few days doesnot want to go down.  Enjoys drama from above.  But then again he is attracted to something and wants to go down thinking that he will be more careful this time.  He forgets his earlier resolve not to go back.  As he is on descend he again is having change of mind but now he cannot go up again.  Process has to be completed.

I think Our desires n strong attachments
bring us back.  They are pushing us down.  No one else is doing it.

On top it may be good but activity, learning, enjoyments , suffering,  yin and yang...all is on earth.  May be most people do not like monotony above, from where you can see but cannot do anything at all.  When all the perfect, what is left to enjoy and for how long.

Its like giving birth one suffers labour pain but after some time again wants a baby.  Why??   To re-capture the joy felt earlier even if it means suffering again.

Its catch 22 situation...our joy becomes our source of suffering.

Vandana Ritik Mulchandani

Noida

Why are we born ????

What is the purpose of our life ? Is it just to spend our life studying, getting married, having children, grandchildren, turning old and then dying? Is this all we come to earth for – to learn, struggle, reproduce, make property, enjoy life and then go back? What about those who are born abnormal at birth time itself? What about those who do not lead a normal life? Who told us to live the way we do? Who programmed this kind of life style of self preservation in our psychic? Is that all we are supposed to do?

There has got to be some higher reason for our coming to this earth. God could not have sent us on earth to simply enjoy life and then go back. There appears to be some hidden, secret agenda behind every creation on earth and since we all are unique, the agenda is also uniquely different for each creation of God.

The biggest gift that God/Universe has given us is our faculty to ‘forget’. How complicated it would be if we remember each and every event of this life, past lives and afterlife? If we do not forget, we will not be able to get over our sorrows and our losses. Our soul remembers all. However, in human body we forget that we have any soul at all. The greatest treasures of the world have been found hidden in unimaginable, difficult and yet reachable places. Similarly, the Divine Power of Lord is hidden deep within our soul but we cannot reach it because we have forgotten all about it.

Have you noticed that we are never content with what we have? If our one desire is fulfilled another desires comes up and the cycle goes on. There comes a point in life of a human being when he sits down and thinks that though I have got everything I wanted still I want something ‘more’. In trying to find out what that ‘more’ is we end up fulfilling more material desires and still find something lacking. If we introspect more at this point we will find answer to our actual reason for coming to this earth – which is to know ourselves and to know our creator. To know that we are actually ‘soul’ wearing different ‘body garments’ and our soul is tiny spark of that Divine unseen Power that we call GOD/Brahma/Universe.

But in our normal day to day life we do not think on those lines. Mostly ‘soul’ and ‘body’ is discussed when some one dies. These theories are explained to comfort the relatives of the bereaved and people go back home hoping and believing that nothing of this sort will happen to them or their loved ones or that they will cross the bridge when storm comes. But then why do we have to wait to suffer ourselves to learn this biggest lesson of life? Why cannot we stop and try to understand this mystery in the beginning itself? We all wait to get retired to introspect on the issue thinking that we still have lot of time with us.

In our free time we perform some exoteric religious practices – like going to our place of worship on some specific day, bowing at altar morning and evening, keeping some fasts to please God. Do you think it really works? Are these not mere rituals if we do not perform these rituals with ‘intense feelings’? At esoteric level all major religions in the world speak of that single power controller, a divine unseen form of energy of bright light from which the life begins and in same the life ends. It is like we all have one destination to reach. Only the routes & methods followed to reach the destination are different depending upon what religion one follows or believes in.

What we study in academic books only tells us about how this physical world functions. Religious books tell us about how universe functions. But how do we coordinate between the earthly and universal functions is something we have to realize ourselves. Science has revealed that all matter is made up of energy and at its smallest visible (invisible to naked human eye) form it is not joined to anything. There is a space in between. None has been able to find out what is that energy made up of and what is that space made up of. We are fooled by what we see. There is so much which we do not know despite so much technological advancement. Even our human body is combination of biology(different organs) and chemistry(reactions of different hormones). What is it that is giving life to it? When a person dies, the body is still here but what is it that goes out?

Why cannot we try to understand, feel, realize and see that specific life giving part(soul) inside our body when we are alive? If we cannot fathom our own soul how can we understand the bigger spirit – GOD?

God gave us free will to break free from pursuing this law of self preservation at some point of time in our life to get to know ourselves. Some break free at early age, some in youth age, some in middle age but most of us want to break free in old age when our so called worldly responsibilities are over. But by this time, our body is not healthy enough, our energy is depleting and some of us may not be lucky enough to survive that long. What a waste of life we have made then? It is said that sometimes it takes many lifetimes to understand and to break free from pursuing Self preservation to tread on the path of Self realization and ultimately God realization.

We all are at different levels of soul development and tied up with individually unique prarabdh and karma. This cycle will not stop if we keep on living life only for ourselves and our kiths & kins. The moment we realize what we are made up of and why we are here, we are free from karmas. Karmas are created as long as we think ourselves to be different from God. The moment we realize that God in within each and everyone of us, the pain and pleasure can no longer control us. We start to feel love for each and everyone and are finally free. But then it is easier said than done.

As per ancient Hindu philosophy there are different levels of understanding. Theory, reading or listening is first part. If we remember the same and think consistently on something we have read or heard, we start to contemplate on the same till we practice it. Ultimately, we assimilate this knowledge and get another new layer of understanding from our own experience and we finally realize what we learnt or read. If we start to understand our knowledge about soul in this manner, a day will come when we will be able to see, feel, listen and talk to our own soul.

Meditation is another important tool to get to know oneself. The great Indian Saint Shirdi SaiBaba said that barring our name and body what is left is our soul - the feeling of consciousness - the feeling of being alive. This is our soul. It is our true self.

Our soul talks to us regularly, guides us and reminds us of our purpose of taking birth but we are so lost in outside world that we do not want to look inwards. We just cannot sit alone for long. We are enjoying materialistic world. Sitting all alone, doing nothing makes us shaky and mad. Many workaholics feel this is wastage of time. It is not. Lord Buddha got enlightened during that moment of nothingness – the void – the moment when we are absolutely free of any thought. Weak man would say, ‘I am not Buddha’. But then who is stopping us from becoming like Buddha? We ourselves are creating hurdles for us. If we say that something is difficult then it becomes our reality and thus realizing our own soul becomes absolutely impossible.

Our soul is linked to the divine Spirit. If we cannot listen to our own soul, we will not be able to listen to God’s voice which is constantly emanating through the universe because our own frequency is not tuned precisely to be able to listen to it. During meditation, people have heard lot of such messages, sounds, seen visions which are beyond comprehension of a physical human mind. This happens because during meditation our frequency fine tunes and catches up with the universal frequency and we are able catch the same as per our own capability. The more we meditate the more we are able to catch from the universe and this continues even when we are not meditating. Gradually, our intuitive sense becomes strong and we become aware of our own increasing ‘knowingness’. The universal knowledge is symbolic, secretive and subtle. In moments of solitude, so many secrets are revealed which are beyond recognition of our physical five senses. It is up to us to maintain and continue this internal spiritual communication with universe despite continuing to live in material world.

For listening to our own soul, we need not give up on our worldly duties. Lord Krishna has said that we can connect with our own creator while carrying on with our day to day activities provided we have faith in HIS existence and we are sincerely regular in our efforts. If we have to take ten steps towards God, we have to initiate the journey towards self realization by taking that all important first step. Then the Lord/Universe will take the rest of nine steps towards us because HE knows how difficult it is for a householder, living on earth, to break free from the law of self preservation and to tread towards acquiring self knowledge.

The crux is that Universe listens to our earnest requests and responds to our faithful efforts even though we may not realize it immediately. But we are rewarded with enormous ‘retirement benefits’ in afterlife. No effort made towards spiritual pursuit goes waste. Are we eager to take a journey inwards and tap at the overflowing reservoir of treasure full of universal/God knowledge hidden within our own beings ?

Vandana Ritik
New Delhi