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rule for the population to increase and decrease. The world is such that it just goes on increasing and decreasing! Now the population will decrease again.
Questioner: Will those living beings (jiva) live again?
Dadashri: After living, are those living beings going to die? They all went back to the animal form, to the same place they had come from.
After death, the Atma of the one heading for the celestial realm (deva gati), goes to the celestial realm, and the one that is heading towards the infernal realm (nark gati), travels to the infernal realm. Some go into the animal kingdom (jaanvar gati), and if it is to be reborn as a human, it will go into the human realm (manushya gati). And there are many souls (jiva), who receive a punishment, as a result of their unfolding karma, whereby for two or three years, they are doomed to wander around in a form without a body; as evil spirit (pretayoni).
So death is just like changing one's clothes. Whatever is physical just disappears, or else it gets left behind, while the Atma receives another yoni (womb).
Questioner: How can one prove that after death, the Atma went somewhere else? Is there any evidence?
Dadashri: Of reincarnation (punarjanma)! Questioner: Yes. And is it something a person can believe?
Dadashri: Yes, 'we' (the Gnani Purush) will give you proof so that you can believe that there is such a thing as rebirth (punarjanma). It is quite a long evidence. People are bound to ask for proof of whether there is rebirth, are they not? How Long Will the Process of Rebirth Take?
Questioner: Who takes rebirth? Is it the living being (jiva) or the Atma?
| SR No. | 030038 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 08 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dada Bhagwan |
| Publisher | Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 436 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 1 MB |