REINCARNATION IS UNKNOWN TO
MODERN SCIENTISTS
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THIS SCIENCE OF TRANSMIGRATION IS COMPLETELY UNKNOWN TO MODERN SCIENTISTS. SO-CALLED SCIENTISTS DO NOT LIKE TO BOTHER WITH THESE THINGS BECAUSE IF THEY WOULD AT ALL CONSIDER THIS SUBTLE SUBJECT MATTER AND THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE, THEY WOULD SEE THAT THEIR FUTURE IS VERY DARK.
IGNORANCE OF REINCARNATION
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MODERN CIVILIZATION IS BASED ON FAMILY COMFORTS, THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF AMENTIES, AND THEREFORE AFTER RETIREMENT EVERYONE EXPECTS TO LIVE A VERY COMFORTABLE LIFE IN A WELL-FURNISHED HOME DECORATED WITH FINE LADIES AND CHILDREN, WITHOUT ANY DESIRE TO GET OUT OF SUCH A COMFORTABLE HOME. HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND MINISTERS STICK TO THEIR PRIZE POSTS UNTIL DEATH, AND THEY NEITHER DREAM NOR DESIRE TO GET OUT OF HOMELY COMFORTS. BOUND BY SUCH HALLUCINATIONS, MATERIALISTIC MEN PREPARE VARIOUS PLANS FOR A STILL MORE COMFORTABLE LIFE, BUT SUDDENLY CRUEL DEATH COMES WITHOUT MERCY AND TAKES AWAY THE GREAT PLANMAKER AGAINST HIS DESIRE, FORCING HIM TO GIVE UP THE PRESENT BODY FOR ANOTHER BODY. SUCH A PLANMAKER IS THUS FORCED TO ACCEPT ANOTHER BODY IN ONE OF THE 8,400,000 SPECIES OF LIFE, ACCORDING TO THE FRUITS OF THE WORK HE HAS PERFORMED.
IN THE NEXT LIFE, PERSONS WHO WERE TOO MUCH ATTACHED TO FAMILY COMFORTS ARE GENERALLY AWARDED LOWER SPECIES OF LIFE ON ACCOUNT OF SINFUL ACTS PERFORMED DURING A LONG DURATION OF SINFUL LIFE, AND THUS ALL THE ENERG OF THE HUMAN LIFE IS SPOILED. IN ORDER TO BE SAVED FROM THE DANGER OF SPOILING THE HUMAN FORM AND BEING ATTACHED TO UNREAL THINGS, ONE MUST TAKE WARNING OF DEATH AT THE AGE OF FIFTY, IF NO EARLIER. THE PRINCIPLE IS THAT ONE SHOULD TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT THE DEATH WARNING IS ALREADY THERE, EVEN PRIOR TO THE ATTAINMENT OF FIFTY YEARS OF AGE, AND THUS AT ANY STAGE OF LIFE ONE SHOULD PREPARE HIMSELF FOR A BETTER NEXT LIFE.
OUR BODY COMPOSED OF
FIVE ELEMENTS
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WHEN WE DIE, THIS MATERIAL BODY COMPOSED OF FIVE ELEMENTS - EARTH, WATER, AIR, FIRE, AND ETHER - DECOMPOSES, AND THE GROSS MATERIALS RETURN TO THE ELEMENTS. OR, AS THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE SAYS, "DUST THOU ART, AND UNTO DUST THOU SHALT RETURN". UB SINE SOCIETIES THE BODY IS BURNED, IN OTHERS IT IS BURIED, AND IN OTHER IT IS THROWN TO ANIMALS. IN INDIA, THE HINDUS BURN THE BODY, AND THUS THE BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO ASHES. ASH IS SIMPLY ANOTHER FORM OF EARTH. CHRISTIANS BURY THE BODY, AND AFTER SOME TIME IN THE GRAVE, THE BODY EVENTUALLY TURNS TO DUST, WHICH AGAIN, LIKE ASH, IS ANOTHER FORM OF EARTH. THERE ARE OTHER SOCIETIES - LIKE THE PARSEE COMMUNITY IN INDIA - THAT NEITHER BURN NOR BURY THE BODY, BUT THROW IT TO THE VULTURES, AND THE VULTURES IMMEDIATELY COME TO EAT THE BODY, AND THEN THE BODY IS EVENTUALY TRANSFORMED INTO STOOL. SO IN ANY CASE, THIS BEAUTIFUL BODY, WHICH WE ARE SOAPING AND CARING FOR SO NICELY, WILL EVENTUALLY TURN INTO EITHER STOOL, ASHES, OR DUST. AT DEATH, THE FINER ELEMENTS (MIND, INTELLIGENCE, AND EGO) CARRY THE SMALL PARTICLE OF SPIRIT SOUL TO ANOTHER BODY TO SUFFER OR ENJOY, ACCORDING TO ONE'S WEEK.
ASTROLOGY AND
REINCARNATION
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ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS OF STELLAR INFLUENCES UPON A LIVING BEING ARE NOT SUPPOSITIONS, BUT ARE FACTUAL, AS CONFIRMED IN SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM. EVERY LIVING BEING IS CONTROLLED BY THE LAWS OF NATURE AT EVERY MINUTE, JUST AS A CITIZEN IN CONTROLLED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE STATE. THE STATE LAWS ARE GROSSLY OBSERVED, BUT THE LAWS OF MATERIAL NATURE, BEING SUBTLE TO OUR GROSS UNDERSTANDING, CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED GROSSLY.
THE LAWS OF NATURE IS SO SUBTLE THAT EVERY PART OF OUR BODY IS INFLUENCED BY THE RESPECTIVE STARS, AND A LIVING BEING OBTAINS HIS WORKING BODY TO FULFILL HIS TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT BY THE MANIPULATION OF SUCH ASTRONOMICAL INFLUENCES. A MAN'S DESTINY IS THEREFORE ASCERTAINED BY THE BIRTH TIME CONSTELLATION OF STARS, AND A FACTUAL HOROSCOPE IS MADE BY A LEARNED ASTROLOGER. IT IS A GREAT SCIENCE, AND MISUSE OF A SCIENCE DOES NOT MAKE IT USELESS.
WHY SOME PEOPLE CANNOT ACCEPT
REINCARNATION
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THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND THERE IS ALSO THE CHANCE TO FREE ONESELF FROM THE CYCLE OF REPEATED BIRTH AND DEATH AND ATTAIN A LIFE OF IMMORTALITY. BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO ACCEPTING ONE BODY AFTER ANOTHER SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, IT IS DIFFICULT FOR US TO THINK OF A LIFE THAT IS ETERNAL. AND THE LIFE OF MATERIAL EXISTENCE IS SO TROUBLESOME THAT ONE MAY THINK THAT IF THERE IS AN ETERNAL LIFE, THAT LIFE MUST BE TROUBLESOME ALSO. FOR EXAMPLE, A DISEASED MAN WHO IS TAKING VERY BITTER MEDICINE AND WHO IS LYING DOWN IN BED, EATNG THERE PASSING STOOL AND URINE THERE, UNABLE TO MOVE, MAY FIND HIS LIFE SO INTOLERABLE THAT HIS THINKS, LET ME COMMIT SUICIDE, "SIMILARLY, MATERIALISTIC LIFE IS SO MISERABLE THAT IN DESPERATION ONE SOMETIMES TAKES TO A PHILOSOPHY OF VOIDISM OR IMPERSONALISM TO TRY TO NEGATE HIS VERY EXISTENCE AND MAKE EVERYTHING ZERO. ACTUALLY, HOWEVER, BECOMING ZERO IS NOT POSSIBLE, NOR IS IT NECESSARY. WE ARE IN TROUBLE IN OUR MATERIAL CONDITION, BUT WHEN WE GET OUT OF OUR MATERIAL CONDITION WE CAN FIND REAL LIFE, ETERNAL LIFE.
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