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I am the Soul the next birth, where as they rise, they influence the jiva's nature and temperament.
Whatever influences we see in this birth are by far the ones carried forward from the previous birth. Some of the influences are generated from the atmosphere here. But such atmosphere is also because of the karmas of previous births. The type of karmas decides the type of atmosphere available to one here and therefore, only such influences occur here too.
Another aspect: A perfectly healthy mother gives birth to a sickly baby. Science searches for an answer to this. If it does not find in the mother, it leaves this to God. But let us consider why this could happen. Sometimes the baby comes with a serious illness. It needs to be operated upon within three days. Then, Brothers! We begin to feel, “Oh, how sad! Poor Baby! Just born, what sins could it have committed to suffer in such a way?” And truly, the baby has done nothing up on coming here. Its mind, speech and body are so undeveloped that it cannot commit a sin. Then what really happened?
Intellect cannot offer a solution to this riddle. There are two things to it: Either this jiva wherever it was in the previous birth was suffering from this sort of a disease. Before the karmas were worn out, the lifeline ended. It died there and carried the illness along with it here. As such it looked sickly the moment it was born. Or else, it has brought its karmas along. Those karmas arose soon after the birth, and there is no escaping their suffering. Whatever a jiva does, those influences are etched on to the atma.
The influences so etched, arise in this birth. Let us think! What all did we have to learn after birth, and what did we start doing without any training? Broadly, the bodily activities like sitting, standing, walking, talking - all were learnt upon training. But who taught getting angry, acting stubborn, developing likesdislikes, realising the need for taking food and such? Did the
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